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"All one should care about is - is this excellent or is it not? Is this right or is this wrong?" I generally agree with this article. But you can't be a white
by beaner 9y ago
"All one should care about is - is this excellent or is it not? Is this right or is this wrong?"
I generally agree with this article. But you can't be a white male and speak this way in silicon valley without being shamed and being labeled a Trump supporter. Especially if your company has militant diversity advocates.
- andrewflnr 9y agoThe tragedy here cannot be overstated. The truth itself has been demonized by people who claim to be "just speaking the truth" when they lie, and people who can't see through it and believe it's ok to sacrifice truth on the altar of their ideology.
- _jahh 9y agoThe tragedy is that for hundreds if not thousands of years half the population has had their voice muted and ability to contribute intellectually hamstrung
- flukus 9y agoFor hundreds if not thousands of years 90%+ of the population had their voice muted and ability to contribute intellectual hamstrung. It's only the few hundred years that we've had the resources to change this.
- belorn 9y ago90% is an heavily underestimated number, where reality should be closer to 99%. We only need to go back a bit more than 100 years where researchers either was extremely wealthy and supported the work themselves (generally through inheritance), or required a patronage from someone who was wealthy. Going through the list of famous scientists that dates back hundreds if not thousands and the idea that you need to be rich to do intellectual work is a repeating pattern. Not many people, then or now, can afford at an early age to stop focusing on creating food on the table and roof over their head, and on top of that fund what is generally a rather expensive passion.
- andrewflnr 9y agoNo one here is disputing that. Your comment is pure whataboutism.
- erik_seaberg 9y agoBeing taken seriously means your crimethink is also taken seriously.
- carapace 9y agoUm, your user name though.
- figurehe4d 9y agoNow I want to live in silicon valley... And chances are you were still being racist/sexist but you didn't even realize it because you've got the wall shadows that deeply ingrained in you.
- figurehe4d 9y agoUhhhhh I guess hacknernews doesn't let you delete comments or even edit them (wtf??) But it looks like I read the previous comment wrong and responded to something that wasn't actually said.
- grzm 9y agoYou can edit a comment within during a certain period after initial creation (20 minutes, I believe). You can delete a comment during that time as well as long as no one has responded. You may have missed the edit window here, but you did the next best thing, make a comment with a correction or addendum.
- meebs 9y agoNobody is saying to hire people who are less excellent than you normally would. What people are saying is make an effort to find candidates that are underrepresented.