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Well Indians are over represented in tech so you're views don't matter. Double because you're male. But yes, rather rediculous. Totally agree. It's like survel

by wand3r 9y ago

Well Indians are over represented in tech so you're views don't matter. Double because you're male. But yes, rather rediculous. Totally agree. It's like survelience and terrorism. Just a stupid excuse to gain Goodwill w/ some groups and avoid a different problem they don't want to deal with. Hope you weren't offended, I just wanted to make a point. Of course your views matter

TokenDiversity 9y ago
No I got you, you're saying majority is an automatic disqualification which is ridiculous but happens today nevertheless.
- hn_throwaway_99 9y ago
  The interesting thing is that this change really happened in the past 10 or 15 years or so. That is, the phrase "under-represented minority" is relatively new, and basically came about because someone decided Indians and East Asians "don't count" anymore when it comes to diversity because we've got too many of them. I consider myself liberal, but I feel this business of grading everyone by their race and sex is the exact antithesis of liberal ideals. What happened to MLK's ideas of not being judged by the color of your skin, but by the content of your character? Yes, I understand that things like subconscious bias and privilege can complicate this ideal, but at the end of the day, we shouldn't be surprised that anyone gets angry when they are told "Sorry, we don't want anymore of your race/sex, we've already got too many of your kind."
catenthusiast 9y ago
*your
- huffmsa 9y ago
  No, it's you're. Conjugation of "you are". As in > No I get you, YOU ARE saying.
  - naasking 9y ago
    The correction was for "YOUR views" which incorrectly used you're.
  - huffmsa 9y ago
    Whoops. Thought you were replying to a different post
  - deleted 9y ago
    [deleted]
  - Myrmornis 9y ago
    *contraction (Um, also, maybe we should stop this HN tradition of making copy-editing changes to other people's posts? What does it actually achieve? Especially as we've no idea whether we're writing our first language)

by wand3r 9y ago

TokenDiversity 9y ago

No I got you, you're saying majority is an automatic disqualification which is ridiculous but happens today nevertheless.

hn_throwaway_99 9y ago
The interesting thing is that this change really happened in the past 10 or 15 years or so. That is, the phrase "under-represented minority" is relatively new, and basically came about because someone decided Indians and East Asians "don't count" anymore when it comes to diversity because we've got too many of them. I consider myself liberal, but I feel this business of grading everyone by their race and sex is the exact antithesis of liberal ideals. What happened to MLK's ideas of not being judged by the color of your skin, but by the content of your character? Yes, I understand that things like subconscious bias and privilege can complicate this ideal, but at the end of the day, we shouldn't be surprised that anyone gets angry when they are told "Sorry, we don't want anymore of your race/sex, we've already got too many of your kind."

catenthusiast 9y ago

*your

huffmsa 9y ago
No, it's you're. Conjugation of "you are". As in > No I get you, YOU ARE saying.
- naasking 9y ago
  The correction was for "YOUR views" which incorrectly used you're.
- huffmsa 9y ago
  Whoops. Thought you were replying to a different post
- deleted 9y ago
  [deleted]
- Myrmornis 9y ago
  *contraction (Um, also, maybe we should stop this HN tradition of making copy-editing changes to other people's posts? What does it actually achieve? Especially as we've no idea whether we're writing our first language)