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by hnamazon123 10y ago
You mean the fact they're both predominately Muslim areas?
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by hnamazon123 10y ago
> There is a direct line of causation between European and American interventions in the Middle East and the bombings in Boston [...] Oh yes, the caucasian Tsarnaev brothers, born in Kyrgyzstan, who came to the US as asylum seekers from
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by hnamazon123 11y ago
This is racism iff in fact blacks in Chicago don't disproportionally commit the type of crimes/infractions that they are arrested for.
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by hnamazon123 11y ago
"I look to a day when people will not be judged by the content of their character, but by the color of their skin." - Martin Luther King, Jr.
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by hnamazon123 11y ago
That's actually a really interesting angle. I didn't start programming when I was 10 because there are Jews in tech. I never associated my race or ethnicity with any sort of permission to do anything. The thought never crossed my
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by hnamazon123 11y ago
See I don't think it's completely safe to assume that the reasons are valid for one or more reasonable definitions of valid. That to me is what's interesting to discuss. A cis-gendered heterosexual male WASP's perspectiv
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by hnamazon123 11y ago
That's a really good point. I suppose I'm cynical when it comes to corporations taking social positions. My first inclination would be to assume that there's an alterior profit motive in terms of the optics as it relates to m
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by hnamazon123 11y ago
I can only speculate on what I would feel if I were in their shoes given my own circumstances. How is that not a reasonable way to start a discussion? I recognize that I will never fully understand the perspective of a black woman, however
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by hnamazon123 11y ago
Right, so it's interesting to consider why they don't feel used. Considering this was done consciously what is message we are meant to come away with? Is it a) to show the world that black women can be engineers at successful comp
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by hnamazon123 11y ago
I think understand your perspective. I just disagree with your contention that this story should be taken at face value or understood in a narrow context. I see this story as part of a more broad discussion about identity politics so I thin
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by hnamazon123 11y ago
Yes, if I worked at Ford or at IBM or some other firm with past antisemitic connections I would feel even more patronized. I'm a person, not a prop to be used by a corporation to score social points.
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by hnamazon123 11y ago
In this scenario I'm not pressured, just asked with the clear understanding that I'm being asked because of my ethnicity. As I said, I can't speak to the experiences and perspectives of these women because the circumstances a
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by hnamazon123 11y ago
I'm an male Ashkenazi Jew. I don't look stereotypically Jewish so I don't claim to fully be able to relate to these women and their experiences but if the startup I work for now asked me to accept an award on its behalf becau
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by hnamazon123 11y ago
Do you view all the transactions you've made in your life as taking things from people? So in your mind you've been swindling people your whole life. That's pretty awful.
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by hnamazon123 11y ago
I'm not sure how you can look at the insanity rife among the student bodies at college campuses today and say that colleges are creating informed, thinking citizens.
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by hnamazon123 11y ago
I got that advice all my life and it never made sense to me. You have to demonstrate value to employers; to anyone with whome you desire to exchange goods or services for money. Simply having a college degree is a very weak signal for value
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by hnamazon123 11y ago
That's really just something you tell yourself to feel good about the dire financial situation your students are in. I mean, yes, spending 4 years with minimal responsibility, partying, and studying great literature and arts is certain
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by hnamazon123 11y ago
The real absurdity here is that we can have a discussion about student loans and not discuss the fact that non-STEM degrees offer, in nearly all cases, a poor ROI. This completely boggles my mind. It's insanity.
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by hnamazon123 11y ago
According to Wikipedia the ruling party in Venezuela is the PSUV (the United Socialist Party of Venezuela). What are you on about?
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by hnamazon123 11y ago
Good for North Korea! It's important that there be Mutually Assured Destruction between North Korea the imperialist US-backed South Korea. We have nuclear weapons. Who are we to say that North Korea shouldn't have them? That just
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by hnamazon123 11y ago
Copy pasting this from below: Who gives a fuck what Islamic State wants us to do? This is the most intellectually bankrupt argument tossed around. It literally makes no sense at all . We need to do what is strategically sound. If that happ
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by hnamazon123 11y ago
> That risk will always be there no matter what we do. Yeah, you're correct. I meant significant risk. It's always a risk. > They kill people because it serves their goals indirectly, it allows them to recruit, get more fund
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by hnamazon123 11y ago
Islamic State needs oil money to sustain its military, not the terrorists that it sends into Europe. The most expensive cost there is airfare and weapons/munitions. Additionally, cutting off funding doesn't solve the issue of home
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by hnamazon123 11y ago
You can't tackle the threat already within the borders without a France-style state of emergency, unfortunately.
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by hnamazon123 11y ago
They've already gotten the better of us because they're within our borders. Now the choice is between doing nothing, thereby accepting the risk of us or our loved ones getting blown up or shot going while we go about our daily rou
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by hnamazon123 11y ago
Oops. Yes, my bad.
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by hnamazon123 11y ago
> It's hard to explain politics regarding present-day Israel without this context, for example. Not really. The Holocaust wasn't a factor in deciding to build a wall along the West Bank. The suicide bombers that would drive fro
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by hnamazon123 11y ago
As a Jew I can tell you that most of the physical danger I feel and, empirically, that Jews experience comes from politically correct liberals (especially Europeans) who whitewash and fail to acknowledge the danger of Muslims and Islam. Pol
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by hnamazon123 11y ago
Sounds like this is actually a pretty reasonable practice. You know that the NY Times would be hammering any sort of unethical results of this practice but this is the worst that the author can come up with: > [Rich patient to author:] &
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by hnamazon123 11y ago
5 years ago this wouldn't have made it to the front page, let alone have so many comments defending it as intellectually honest. Notice how no one ever laments how "HN is turning into Reddit"? There used to be a statement spe

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