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Do you have a stimulus reaction to anything mentioning whiteness?

• richbell 4y ago
  The title and article are intentionally provocative.
  • nemo 4y ago
    >For now, let’s be clear that I hate using them, but for the sake of brevity and ease of understanding I shall continue to use these misguided – and frankly, insidious – labels.
    • richbell 4y ago
      I read the article, I'm just pointing out that asking someone who is provoked by an intentionally provocative article — even if just for clicks — is silly. Not to mention that "white" or "black" has different connotations than "white boy" or "black boy".
      • nemo 4y ago
        If you read it then you'll be familiar with his response to that criticism, and given the responses, I'd say he's right.
        • richbell 4y ago
          That doesn't make it not provocative. It also misses the mark, in my opinion, by failing to mention how insanely well-connected SBF is.
• tido99 4y ago
  It's not particularly surprising that people would criticize someone focusing on a bad actor's ethnic group, whether it's Kanye West going on a Twitter tirade or a "crypto influencer" writing a deliberately provocative headline to drive clicks. The actual article is more nuanced than its title suggests, almost acknowledging the obvious fact that a blue-collar "white boy" in Ohio has nothing close to the "social currency" that someone like Bankman-Fried did. It's still clearly provocative to suggest Bankman-Fried's Stanford educated, genuinely "privileged" upbringing as the son of well known Stanford professors is somehow reflective of hundreds of millions of people rather than his own circumstances. Doing something for clickbait doesn't somehow make it not provocative.