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These privilege bashing articles are really cringe. At what point do we call this sexism/racism?
by tubularhells 6y ago
These privilege bashing articles are really cringe. At what point do we call this sexism/racism?
- angrais 6y agoCan you provide some examples from the article where sexism and racism occurs? I'm not seeing it
- xu_ituairo 6y agoUp to you whether you think this is racist, but the article does invoke generalizations about race and gender through this quote here: > [To be honest] I think most local white dudes don't think of a prototype as something they "funded". They ”just made it” because they had time, space and hardware. Did their other job/parents covering tuition/lack of dependents to support/etc allow that? Yeah, but they can't see how it paid.” Personally, I imagine class or wealth has more to do with being able to bootstrap a game than skin color. And I imagine the barriers to entry have been lowering steeply.
- ycombinete 6y agoFor what it’s worth, that quote is from Dislekcia. He is a white developer from South Africa, where class/wealth is still extremely correlated with race, due to obvious historical reasons.
- admissionsguy 6y agoIt's all about race, just look at all those white dudes from Polish villages cranking out one prototype after another, swimming in the vast oceans of opportunity. Contrast that with the daily struggle any person of colour must endure to survive in, say, Seattle. Unfathomable.
- elefanten 6y agoThis is an underrated comment. The blindingly American framework in these discussions is in itself bigoted — it completely ignores countervailing evidence that comes from adopting a global perspective.
- wtf_is_up 6y agowhite man bad
- tobr 6y ago“Privilege bashing”? Christ, how can it be “bashing” to have a candid discussion about why some people are able to turn their passions into a business, while others can’t? Your reasoning is dangerously close to “the real racism is suggesting that racism would ever be a factor in anything”.
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- Tade0 6y agoBecause more often than not it misses the mark - heavily at that. The article mentions skin tone, but doesn't go too deep into why that might influence things - just assumes that this is the case. Meanwhile, as an eastern European, I see typical examples of how social class influences one's options. To clarify my point: we're predominantly white over here and yet experience the same kind of problems, which leads me to think that it's probably not skin tone, over which Americans left and right seem to be so fixated, but other things. Yes, there's racism - that's abundantly clear. But there's also poverty, inequality and an associated lack of access to education. Maybe we would have made more progress as a species if we stopped focusing on easily identifiable features?
- jjj123 6y agoWell in the US race is inextricably tied to class. We have a long history of limiting the economic opportunities of Black people that’s led to a pretty extreme black/white wealth gap. So in the US at least, class issues are race issues.