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Re:GitHub is undergoing a full-blown overhaul as execs and e... by moron4hire on Saturday February 06, 2016 @03:55PM (#11049811)
The mistake of sociological studies labeling a concept called white privilege was when people started using it to villify others for the negative space of discrimination they didn't receive.

IDK why, but people tend to not like being blamed for things they didn't do.

If that's not the mesaage we're supposed to take out of the concept, them somebody has got a lot of work to do to figure out a better way of communicating it. Someone who is not me, because I'm a programmer, just trying to take care of my own family, not a sociologist.

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Re:GitHub is undergoing a full-blown overhaul as execs and e... by jshevek on Saturday February 06, 2016 @07:02PM (#11050723)
I don't see how your comment relates to mine. My point was that the simple fact of the existence of downvotes alone are a wholly insufficient basis for reaching a conclusion about #hnwatch.

Its too common for people to be so certain of their own viewpoint that they will simply assume the worst (ie racism and sexism) of anyone who disagrees with them, rather than consider that their critics might have damn good (non-racist, non-sexist) reasons for disagreeing with them.

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