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There's people saying there's too many whites and males in tech too.
by whamlastxmas 7y ago
There's people saying there's too many whites and males in tech too.
- throthrothis 7y agoThere's people in Quebec Canada saying there's too many who speaks English in Quebec.
- oarabbus_ 7y agoWell, the difference being that white males hold institutional power in the United States, whereas that isn't true for Asian males (or females).
- wendyshu 7y agoInteresting claim but it's vague in a way that I really don't know what it means.
- jhawk28 7y agoAre you saying that it is ok to be racist depending on the status of the person?
- oarabbus_ 7y agoNo, I'm saying there's a difference between people saying "there's too many Asians in tech" and "there's too many white males in tech".
- turbo_fart_box 7y agoAmericans fixate on skin colour and forget that class is far more important
- ceejayoz 7y agoPeople pushing that argument tend to pretend there's not a significant interlinking between race and class in America.
- microcolonel 7y agoIsn't that a strong argument for class as a better means for analysis? I mean, if they're so interlinked, why not avoid the pitfalls of racialism?
- oarabbus_ 7y agoThere are people alive today who's parents or grandparents lived for a time without civil rights. I don't think disregarding their experience is the correct direction to take.
- microcolonel 7y agoThat's not the point I was addressing.
- dang 7y agoIt looks like you've crossed into using HN primarily for political and ideological battle. That destroys the spirit of curiosity that HN exists for, and is against the site guidelines. Ditto for comments that cross into being nasty, like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20942577 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20942577 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21128710 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21128710 and, unfortunately, others you've posted. Would you please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and take the intended spirit of this place more to heart? We'd appreciate it.
- inlined 7y agoThat’s what I was literally taught in school. Our required anti-racism lecture in jr high explicitly said that only white people can be racist and only males can be sexist because only they have power. I understand the point of the argument; systemic oppression comes from power. The argument just seemed odd though.
- refurb 7y agoWell, not really. The California legislature (for example) is less than half white.[1] You could argue white males are overrepresented in some circumstances, but claiming white males hold institutional power exclusively (which is what you inferred) is just plain wrong. [1]https://www.library.ca.gov/Content/pdf/crb/reports/CRB_2017-2018_Legislature_Breakdown_-_Special_Update_2018-08-07.pdf https://www.library.ca.gov/Content/pdf/crb/reports/CRB_2017-...
- TulliusCicero 7y agoMales, sure, there way more men than women in dev roles. At least for Silicon Valley though, white people are, oddly enough, underrepresented relative to the US as a whole. Though that's less because white people are discriminated against, and more because there are a LOT of Asian immigrant tech workers.