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What about all other races that are discriminated against or people that are bullied? Do those matter?
by techntoke 6y ago
What about all other races that are discriminated against or people that are bullied? Do those matter?
- gyrgtyn 6y agoterrible
- snlacks 6y agoThis forum should be above intellectually disingenuous comments such as this. This isn't Facebook, I'm not going to meme back at you. If you don't understand BLM at this point, that is a decision you've made and you will live with the moral and other implications. Edit: likewise, it's perfectly reasonable to think the GitHub/git trend is silly or ineffective. But keep in mind that "virtue signalling" goes both ways. When you speak out against what you see as silly, ineffective but is ultimately well meaning, you're virtue signaling that "all lives matter."
- techntoke 6y agoSo you're saying that Muslim people or Native Americans have not been targeted and discriminated against, and rather than have a movement that encourages justice and equality for all we should just focus on one race to unite us all? If I put a sign in my front yard that said White Lives Matter, would that not be considered racist?
- tzs 6y agoI saw someone make an excellent point, when someone else was asking why we have a black history month in the United States but not a white history month. He said that we don't have a white history month because every month is white history month in the United States.
- techntoke 6y agoWhy don't we have a Native American history month, or Hispanic? Is it because those races are just like white people, never have to face discrimination? Never have anyone judge them because of how they look?
- krapp 6y agoNative American Heritage Month is November, Latinx Heritage Month is from September 15 to October 15.
- apta 6y agoWhen's Muslim history month? Jewish history month? Aramaic history month? Japanese history month?
- krapp 6y agoWelp, guess you're right. There probably isn't a specific month-long celebration for every race, religion, culture, ethnicity, nationality, profession or identity on Earth. Although California, at least (possibly other states, it's not worth my time to check), and Canada have Muslim appreciation/history months, and Jewish American Heritage month is in May, as is Asian Pacific American Heritage month.
- dang 6y agoPlease don't bring up tired tropes like that one here. It's never going to change, so we're only going to get a tedious flamewar out of it, which indeed you've been perpetuating downthread—which, please don't. It's not as if we lack for new things to discuss and argue about. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html