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- cess11 1y ago[flagged]
- oblio 1y agoWhat about these cases happening outside of the US?
- techbro92 1y agoAt certain companies and it’s org structures yeah
- DontchaKnowit 1y agoI never understood this redefinition of the word... Racism means prejudice based on race. Period. Thats all it means. Redefining the word like you suggested is moving the political goalposts
- cess11 1y ago[flagged]
- tux3 1y agoI think you've earned a Godwin point. "The Nazis weren't prejudiced" isn't a great start to an argument, even as a strawman of someone else's position.
- hdlothia 1y agoHow do the nazis qualify as not prejudiced?
- DontchaKnowit 1y agoIsm doesnt mean systenic hierarchy. Does gigantism mean a systemic hierarchy of giants? Does botulism mean systemic hierarchy of botulinum. Hobestly what the hell are you talking about?
- johnsmith1840 1y agoThat's a made up deffinition only recently invented. Racism is hating another group of people based on physical or cultural background. The US is the most powerful country does that mean if I go to india I can't experience racism because technically India is "weaker" ? Isn't this example literally a group of stronger indians being racist to weaker individuals (job applicants)? This also implies they are not hiring black, asian, or hispanic people either but because they're a minority that's ok? Such a bad take.
- cess11 1y ago[flagged]
- Podrod 1y agoThis is an incredibly weird hill to die on.
- lazide 1y agoAlso, having lived in Asia before - Americans are totally amateur racists compared to Asians (well, east, southeast, and south anyway. Never lived in Central Asia). Those aunties and uncles can discriminate you down to damn near the block you came from, even if it was on the other side of the planet, and tell everyone exactly why you’re a bad idea for reasons even you didn’t know about. Signed, your good little gwailou.
- baxtr 1y agoSo are you saying that if you were to put white people into a country that is systemically ruled by non-whites, they can’t be racist there?
- tomhow 1y agoPlease don't comment in this cross-examination style on HN. The guidelines ask us not to do this. Please observe the guidelines if you want to participate here, especially these ones: Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes. Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive. Eschew flamebait. Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. It tramples curiosity. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- mrtesthah 1y ago[flagged]
- LudwigNagasena 1y agoThat’s simply an outlandish claim. Most people are not in control of any level of the government.
- transcriptase 1y agoI mean there is that one group.
- tbrownaw 1y agoWhich group? Politicians?
- transcriptase 1y agoIlluminati, mole men, lizard people.
- pcthrowaway 1y agoIgnoring whether the claim is accurate or not, if Indian hiring managers are preferentially hiring other Indians, yes of course this is racism, because it means they are also discriminating against all other PoC candidates, not just white people. Please think a little bit harder before claiming something isn't racism because it might somewhat counteract the structural privilege enjoyed by white people. Yes, white privilege is a thing, and if the claim was that Indian hiring managers were giving preference to non-white people, your comment would at least be worth discussing in the context of a society which overall still privileges white people. But that wasn't even the claim.
- wizzwizz4 1y agoYou can't compress the complexities of all social dynamics to a single axis. What's the distinction you're trying to make between "act of discrimination" and "racism"? Usually the distinction people try to draw is something like "systematic" vs "one-off" (the difference between one person yelling at you on the street, and lots of people yelling at you in particular throughout the month), but the behaviour alleged here is systematic. I suspect you don't have any particular meaning in mind, instead having taken a habit of language that works well in certain situations, and falsely generalised it outside of its domain of validity. If you genuinely believe that the "single axis" approach is valid, please see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intersectionality https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intersectionality.
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