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It's very easy to also not see this as having racial undertones. If all you have is a hammer then everything is a nail, expand your toolbox.
by stjohnswarts 5y ago
It's very easy to also not see this as having racial undertones. If all you have is a hammer then everything is a nail, expand your toolbox.
- jdgoesmarching 5y agoAn institution use idiotic logic to downplay the achievements of someone who happens to be black? Famously something we know has never happened before, particularly in sports. No this doesn’t prove anything, it’s just a data point that happens to fall on a trend line. In this case, HN sees something that looks like a nail and would rather fling the hammer out the window then consider using it.
- ceejayoz 5y agoIf you pull out dozens of nails and the other person tells you they're all not a nail, just "a nail-shaped piece of metal", perhaps you should find another opinion.