throwit542

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by throwit542 10y ago
White/middle class kids aren't magic pixie dust that you can just sprinkle on schools to make them better. https://spottedtoad.wordpress.com/2016/06/10/middle-class-ki...
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by throwit542 10y ago
I was bullied as a kid for being a science nerd and now I am lectured for the "privilege" of having had those experiences by the same crowd of people who perpetrated them. I get it, now I have the "privilege" of being bu
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by throwit542 11y ago
Frankly, I agree with you and I exercise regularly. But I find it hard to interpret the snide comments in this article (or in many others) as honest health recommendations and not as a concerted effort to portray the members of this industr
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by throwit542 11y ago
"All of the competitors—and this will come as a shock—are men, or at least on their way to becoming men. They’re not the healthiest-looking bunch, with an average weight that appears to be no more than 120 pounds. There's a distur
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by throwit542 11y ago
If you read my post more closely, I wasn't talking about white men, but white people. It's pretty clear that the facts show that women are underrepresented in tech.
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by throwit542 11y ago
>Your argument is using some old data and substantially flawed reasoning and I'll let other people talk about it If I'm not mistaken, all of those sources are from 2015. You seem to be interpreting my statement of the facts reg
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by throwit542 11y ago
White men are over represented at large tech companies? White people make up around 80% of the U.S. population [0]. They make up less than 60% of tech workers at Google[1] and less than 55% of tech workers at Facebook[2]. That's underr
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by throwit542 11y ago
You're talking about the U.S. educational system leaving men behind, right? Because in America, women are more likely to graduate high school [0], enroll in college [1], graduate from college [2], and even make up 3/5's of gr
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by throwit542 11y ago
Eh, I've got a radical theory for why women don't sign up to take computer science classes. It's because they don't want to be nerds. Can you imagine what their sorority sisters would say?