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That’s pretty racist. What does race have to do with personal preference?
by 486sx33 2y ago
That’s pretty racist. What does race have to do with personal preference?
- markus_zhang 2y agoI don't think this is racist. Why do you think it is a negative thing? I'm Asian myself and I admire those who achieve. Way better than spending youth in BS activities.
- winwang 2y agoAlthough I agree, I think there is a mild hazard with the label of "model minority". Not saying a reaction like that is really warranted in this case, though.
- samatman 2y agoI cannot stress hard enough how tired every sensible human being is of this kind of crimestop knee-jerk anti-contribution to discussions. Stop working so hard to make the word racist useless. We need that word. Thank you.
- winwang 2y ago"P(hard-work-pleasures | asian) >= P(hard-work-pleasures | ~asian)" I'm not sure if that's true, but it's presumably what the other person was saying they observed. Though I think in casual conversation, the reality is that P(racism | <such a sentence>) is likely higher than "baseline", I'd prefer to give the benefit of the doubt on HN. Also, much prefer a place where mentioning "race" doesn't immediate trigger strong reactions. "Race" being in quotations, because I think the original sentence has more to do with the culture of (certain parts of?) Asia rather than actual race. A side analogy: I think that Asians are more likely to like Hello Kitty than non-Asians.
- gaoryrt 2y agoWe Asians would take that as a compliment.