Re:YC Open Office Hours for Black and Hispanic Founders
by johnathanNYC on Wednesday September 16, 2015 @07:04PM
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I completely disagree with this, but can you elaborate on racism not being in policy. I think you are confusing systemic racism (in regards to white privilege) with slurs, discrimination, hating someone's skin color, etc.
Re:YC Open Office Hours for Black and Hispanic Founders
by djtriptych on Wednesday September 16, 2015 @07:28PM
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I mean it's possible to have ideally equitable policy and do almost nothing to address the root causes of racism.
Re:YC Open Office Hours for Black and Hispanic Founders
by poppysan on Wednesday September 16, 2015 @11:16PM
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It's also possible to have policy that is intended to stifle, or harm a specific race. I mean Jim Crow laws were less than half a century ago.
It's a shame that we have to debate this in 2015...
Calling us "one group" diminishes the value of diversity, which is more or less a fact of nature. We are NOT all the same. Cultural intelligence is a thing.
Anyway the specific problem with your race-blind view is that throughout American history we have employed race-sighted policy at every level of government to ensure peril for certain minorities.
Correcting those efforts is an _active_ process of reaching out to the historically disadvantaged who, it can be proven, continue to feel the negative effects of racist American _policy_.
Is that a more reasonable argument?