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Re: Female founders who've had a great 2016

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I support these kinds of lists. Like #BlackLivesMatter, the focus on a purportedly disenfranchised group doesn't mean that the "main" group doesn't matter -- but it's an acknowledgement that we see plenty of representation of the main group -- in this case, men -- by default. Unless you believe that there really are no barriers specific to women (and it doesn't necessarily have to be sexism) and that women just are t…

There is a difference between wanting equality of outcome and equality of opportunity. Don't believe me? look at some documentaries about communism!

You also brought up #BlackLivesMatter, after 3 seconds of googling I get things like:

https://occamsrazormag.wordpress.com/2015/11/22/extreme-anti...

There is a lot of irony in this type of racism.

Why "#BlackLivesMatter"? Why not "#AllLivesMatter" or "#StopPoliceBrutality"?

All these things do is foster tribalism.

Re: Female founders who've had a great 2016

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post #33

BLM is a group that represents economically disadvantaged people. This list is pulled from the upper most echelons of society. Do you think it's ok to represent the wealthy as somehow oppressed? Please don't take my question as an attack, I'm genuinely curious how people who support these initiatives view wealth.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13260049 and marked it off-topic.

please take your life somewhere else.
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