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I honestly don't know what to think of your comment. I will say though, that from a perspective, you are basically saying you read with interest until you found
by anon1m0us 7y ago
I honestly don't know what to think of your comment. I will say though, that from a perspective, you are basically saying you read with interest until you found a reason the "stupidly short-sighted" black man shouldn't have been hired.
When compared to the reality that almost an entire race of people in North America were stolen from their homes and brought to a new land as slaves to benefit their white owners... any potential wrong you are focusing on here is only visible with a microscope.
Your bad behavior doesn't need intent. You didn't need to intend to be a racist when you put him under a microscope like that -- but that doesn't mean you weren't racist when you decided it was important enough to write about. Especially considering the exact behavior is frequent among all races.
And it's the top comment at HN. I can't help but think this says something important about what is really going on.
- GhettoMaestro 7y agoChill out. The reason the original commenter doesn't like it is because said behavior is cheating. Injecting race as an attribute doesn't change the fact that the behavior is cheating.
- anon1m0us 7y agoAirBnB doesn't cheat? Uber? Facebook? Cheating and breaking rules is lauded in Silicon Valley, dare I say admired in entrepreneurs. Black employees though, not so much. This is racism. EDIT: Before you start nitpicking my examples: http://www.paulgraham.com/founders.html http://www.paulgraham.com/founders.html "They delight in breaking rules..."
- GhettoMaestro 7y agoAll 3 of those companies you mentioned are pieces of shit and I do not endorse their various elements of cheating. If you admire them, you're stupid and morally stunted. Stop trying to make everything about race. It is all so tiresome.
- nickpeterson 7y agoThose companies are also wrong then. Stop justifying poor ethics by pointing at other examples of poor ethics, it's a race to the bottom.