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Re:The Black Technologist Who Invented the First Internet Se... by pizza on Wednesday February 22, 2017 @01:21PM (#13707735)
it implies some of the following:

- whites are a non-diverse group of people

- whites (of all types, as a group) have been as historically unempowered as nonwhites in America

- whites think whiteness is underrepresented in America

- whites aren't bothered by how nonwhiteness affects outcomes

- messages about race are currently at peak broadcast capacity, so talking about race is a zero-sum game where prioritizing one audience takes a potential piece of information away another audience

- race is something other than ingroup/outgroup attribution

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Re:The Black Technologist Who Invented the First Internet Se... by gragas on Wednesday February 22, 2017 @01:40PM (#13707929)
>whites are a non-diverse group of people

Even if we assume that this is true (despite the fact that it's not) what does it have to do with printing articles with headlines that read "{INSERT NON-WHITE RACE HERE} miraculously succeeds in life!"?

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Re:The Black Technologist Who Invented the First Internet Se... by pizza on Wednesday February 22, 2017 @03:21PM (#13708816)
I agree, none of those implications are true. That example causes discomfort because the logic is unsound but believed deeply by its proponents.

The reason people like headlines like that is that milestone accomplishments by minorities is inspiring.

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