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It's getting downvoted because people don't like it when other people point out that the groups they belong to contain abusive people. It's typical tribal behav
by thereare5lights 8y ago
It's getting downvoted because people don't like it when other people point out that the groups they belong to contain abusive people. It's typical tribal behavior.
- wang_li 8y agoI doubt many VC angels are reading and voting on HN.
- Fomite 8y agoMany people include aspirational targets (wildly successful tech folks who went on to be VCs/angels) in their mental notion of "tribe". See also the quote about the American poor viewing themselves as temporarily embarrassed millionaires, and voting to support the interest of actual millionaires.
- yorwba 8y agoOr maybe it's getting downvoted because it's trying to counter an argument about diversity of past life experiences with an argument about diversity of class membership, which is quite reductionist. Class membership can be useful as a proxy for e.g. power structures, but if you're already looking at investors, the most important factor influencing power structures is that they have a lot of money. Maybe there are differences in the ways white and black people with lots of money abuse their power, but that'd surprise me.
- moorhosj 8y agoNobody made an argument about class membership. I simply presented some demographic data of VC investors. Meanwhile, you completely ignore the data about investors being heavily skewed towards two specific universities. Isn’t that a past life experience? Isn’t VC investor a “class” in itself?
- dang 8y agoPlease don't break the guidelines by going on about downvoting. Instead, if you see an unfairly downvoted comment, simply give it a corrective upvote and move on. Other users will typically do so too, leaving comments like this one orphaned and inaccurate. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html