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What do I do? I accept the fact that I am asian and so it's okay for blacks to make fun of me when I play basketball.
This is how society works. Sometimes, you just live with it. Stop the whining and the bitching.
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Racism is an edge case? I've lived in Toronto, Vancouver, Seattle, and now SF - all diverse places by American standards. And I've experienced racism at every. single. one. Not of the pitchfork-and-lynching variety, but racism nonetheless. I want to live where you live, where racism is an extraordinary edge case.
Good luck finding anywhere in the entire world where racism doesn't exist. To say it doesn't is ignorant. It's ingrained in our evolutionary traits to have tendency to group and divide whether it be over race, culture, political or religious beliefs. Some people don't have the intelligence however to rationally overcome the natural inclinations toward whatever bias we may subconsciously harbor. This has been true for…
Just to get it out of the way: no one who has ever posted on Hacker News or has ever been even slightly associated with the Bay Area tech scene is the least bit racist. We are all 100.0000% meritocratic, and when we popped out of the womb we were instantly the most color-blind people in history. This is a given, and anyone who would say otherwise is a whiner who's just too lazy and stupid to code. (This, by the way,…
I am asian and when I try to play basketball ... black people make fun of me. What do I do? I accept the fact that I am asian and so it's okay for blacks to make fun of me when I play basketball. This is how society works. Sometimes, you just live with it. Stop the whining and the bitching.
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At the risk of losing karma, I have to say that I think this entire thread has really gone way too far. Guys, this is HACKER NEWS. I thought we were supposed to hold ourselves to a higher standard of conversation over here? Could I just post one thing? http://www.paulgraham.com/randomness.html If you disagree with what someone writes, then you should reply simply and without embellishment. To conclude that someone ha…
The post said that people who get bent out of shape about racism are backwards. Imagine the company not hiring a non-white interviewee, and that person doing thorough research. That comment is findable in search engines. k33n has left himself open to accusations of racism, and put his company at risk of lawsuits.
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At the risk of losing karma, I have to say that I think this entire thread has really gone way too far. Guys, this is HACKER NEWS. I thought we were supposed to hold ourselves to a higher standard of conversation over here? Could I just post one thing? http://www.paulgraham.com/randomness.html If you disagree with what someone writes, then you should reply simply and without embellishment. To conclude that someone ha…
The post said that people who get bent out of shape about racism are backwards. Imagine the company not hiring a non-white interviewee, and that person doing thorough research. That comment is findable in search engines. k33n has left himself open to accusations of racism, and put his company at risk of lawsuits.
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At the risk of losing karma, I have to say that I think this entire thread has really gone way too far. Guys, this is HACKER NEWS. I thought we were supposed to hold ourselves to a higher standard of conversation over here? Could I just post one thing? http://www.paulgraham.com/randomness.html If you disagree with what someone writes, then you should reply simply and without embellishment. To conclude that someone ha…
The post said that people who get bent out of shape about racism are backwards. Imagine the company not hiring a non-white interviewee, and that person doing thorough research. That comment is findable in search engines. k33n has left himself open to accusations of racism, and put his company at risk of lawsuits.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
At the risk of losing karma, I have to say that I think this entire thread has really gone way too far. Guys, this is HACKER NEWS. I thought we were supposed to hold ourselves to a higher standard of conversation over here? Could I just post one thing? http://www.paulgraham.com/randomness.html If you disagree with what someone writes, then you should reply simply and without embellishment. To conclude that someone ha…
I generally believe very much in giving people the benefit of the doubt, and in not overreacting, and so on. The world benefits greatly from not taking offense at the drop of a hat. However, there are times when one's blood boils for a reason. I reread this a few hours after my initial comments and... yep, I'm still angered when I read that those who call out someone for being racist are "backwards" and the equivalen…
Sorry you don't value free speech, or the rules here at HN.
Yeah, some people are genuinely racist, but the fact is that most aren't. What most people incorrectly call "racism" is actually culture fit issues. When someone's culture is sufficiently different from yours, it becomes enough of an unknown to engender fear. And fear due to the unknown leads to paranoid thought, usually at the subconscious level. For example, if you get a job candidate whose demeanor screams "from t…
It's always telling when people downvote, yet have no rebuttal.
This entire issue is crap. I am a black programmer... I have no college education, came from single family home blah blah womp womp. I have launched 10+ projects for clients this year alone. I have 1 failed contract where I left because it just didn't work out. When I had success it was not because I was black and when I failed it was not because I was black. Both when I have succeeded and when I have failed was neve…
I'm black as well and though I haven't experienced racism in tech directly I understand why NewMe is a great option for some people. To the poster I would say respect other people's journeys and experiences.