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Re:GitHub is undergoing a full-blown overhaul as execs and e... by warfangle on Saturday February 06, 2016 @04:36PM (#11050033)
Reverse racism is a myth.
Re:GitHub is undergoing a full-blown overhaul as execs and e... by bendykstra on Saturday February 06, 2016 @04:50PM (#11050103)
Do you mean that it does not exist or that it cannot exist? I've heard this exact phrase before, "reverse racism is a myth," and it seems like an example of a thought-terminating cliché.
Re:GitHub is undergoing a full-blown overhaul as execs and e... by reitanqild on Saturday February 06, 2016 @04:41PM (#11050054)
Don't know about reverse racism but I know very well that reverse sexism exist where I live so I'm tempted to say you are likely wrong.
Re:GitHub is undergoing a full-blown overhaul as execs and e... by fweespeech on Saturday February 06, 2016 @04:43PM (#11050063)
Given they are publicly singling out white women, I'm not really sure that is true.

You shouldn't be generalizing on race if you want me to believe that.

Re:GitHub is undergoing a full-blown overhaul as execs and e... by mercurial on Saturday February 06, 2016 @04:57PM (#11050131)
So, as far as I'm aware, there is "racism-as-defined-in-some-academic-circles", where it's only racism when it's systematic and directed by a privileged ethnic group against an unprivileged ethnic group. Which is (IMHO) different from what non-academic people understand racism. Maybe that's what parent means?
Re:GitHub is undergoing a full-blown overhaul as execs and e... by im2w1l on Saturday February 06, 2016 @05:17PM (#11050208)
Yes, it's clear that some parts of academia has people with really suspicious agendas.
Re:GitHub is undergoing a full-blown overhaul as execs and e... by reitanqild on Saturday February 06, 2016 @06:04PM (#11050456)
> "when it's systematic and directed by a privileged ethnic group against an unprivileged ethnic group"

Honest question: does it have to be directed by "a privileged ethnic group" or is it valid if it is by any general group or even a single, privileged person?

Re:GitHub is undergoing a full-blown overhaul as execs and e... by mercurial on Sunday February 07, 2016 @03:23AM (#11052165)
Presumably, the "privileged group" should have a perceived ethnic composition different from that of the "unprivileged group", otherwise discrimination can't be based on ethnicity. But I guess it doesn't mean that all members of that ethnic group need to share this outlook.

That said, I'm no academic, but I remember reading something about this a few years ago, in the case of a woman in France accused of anti-white racism.

Re:GitHub is undergoing a full-blown overhaul as execs and e... by fweespeech on Saturday February 06, 2016 @05:00PM (#11050145)
I suppose I think I'm just pissed that they target white women. xD