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Indeed. Should we also make Black men only conferences to encourage more male Black engineers and cofounders?

• oldmanjay 12y ago
  Why not? Does the existence of something not aimed at you somehow make your life less worth living?
  • philipjoubert 12y ago
    Actually this kind of thing gets fairly complex. Consider for instance a scenario where the government was sponsoring an event like this - would that be OK? Or consider a company that has a table reserved in their cafeteria specifically for black men. Would that be OK? It seems as a society we've decided that a certain basis of discrimination is fine while others are not. For example having a table exclusively for executives is fine, while one based on race or gender is not.
    • oldmanjay 12y ago
      You can spin up hypotheticals until sundown if that helps you feel good, but I would be a lot more interested in the conversation if you even pretended to address the point I raised. It wasn't that discrimination is fine, it was "the existence of things not aimed at you does not ruin your life"
• kaitai 12y ago
  That would be great! I'd be interested in hearing a panel discussion.