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> mostly white males What is this supposed to imply, exactly?
by nusaru 5y ago
> mostly white males
What is this supposed to imply, exactly?
- sidlls 5y agoAn extreme reading: white men of the past and (some) of the present were/are racist, therefore we all are. It should go without saying that (probably) isn't a charitable reading.
- systemvoltage 5y agoIt boggles my mind how we went from a google search result to white supremacy. I'd like people to please exercise restraint, the world feels like it is falling apart where every conversation becomes political/racial. If this is going on HN, I wonder how it is elsewhere.
- sidlls 5y agoYeah, it’s a bit much. The “extreme” reading is slowly becoming the only acceptable one. Partly because of comments like the one precipitating the thread: there’s no good reason to try to connect these items.
- cratermoon 5y agoI never said they were racist. What does it mean that someone would assume I meant that?
- sidlls 5y agoIt probably doesn’t mean what you think or are trying to imply.
- brinfan 5y agoHe's pointing out that Larry page and sergey brin are both Jewish, its a common antisemitic / alt right "dog whistle".
- z3ncyberpunk 5y agowhining about white people is the tactic of modern woke radical leftists, definitely not alt right who would gladly love all the white representation to further their own racist agenda. idk where you got that dumb thought from
- Tenoke 5y agoThe 'white males are the enemy of the people' is such a leftist trope that it's almost hard for me to believe someone thinks it's an alt right dog whistle.
- brinfan 5y agoYeah I'm just having a laugh, hn will unperson this account in a moment.
- fungiblecog 5y agoIt's the old correlation/causation problem. Being white is at the present time in history correlated wih privilege. But being white isn't the problem. The problem is how the privileged use it to lock out everyone else from the benefits they enjoy. Race and such like are irrelevant distractions.