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Up 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
by xu_ituairo 6y ago
Up 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.