I really think you can do better to make constructive contributions to discourse on Hacker News. In that spirit, what I'll say is that no, numbers in and of the

I really think you can do better to make constructive contributions to discourse on Hacker News. In that spirit, what I'll say is that no, numbers in and of themselves aren't racist, or biased, and neither are words, sentences, facts and so forth. But the way someone uses them can be racist, or biased, whether deliberately or systemically (which is where a system creates racist or biased outcomes, even though no one person is attempting to create a racist or biased outcome). http://braythwayt.com/2016/03/30/racism-is-injustice.html http://braythwayt.com/2016/03/30/racism-is-injustice.html