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You're pushing all the "angry minority" stereotype in your language in your comment. Like, if I as a brown person am uncomfortable something it's me being an i
by aaomidi 6y ago
You're pushing all the "angry minority" stereotype in your language in your comment.
Like, if I as a brown person am uncomfortable something it's me being an irrationally offended minority.
If it's a white person it's just Mike having a bad day.
I'm glad you're not my coworker.
- 9HZZRfNlpR 6y agoI believe it's called white fragility nowadays bt insane Americans. Also, someone who is from Eastern Europe and white, I'm grossly offended by people using my skin color everywhere, I have nothing to do with your history. Do you even realize tech community is bigger than California?
- GhostVII 6y agoWhen I say "irrationally offended minority", I mean "minority" as in a small number of people, not "minority" as in racial minority, although I see why they isn't clear given that I use the word in two different ways in my comment. Most of the people I've seen get offended for trivial reasons are actually not a racial minority at all. As I said, if a significant number of people are offended (or if a small number are offended for a good reason), we should probably change our language. But if it is a small number of people getting offended at a word used in a context where it has never been offensive, I don't think we should accomodate them.