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Re:Facebook removed post by ex-manager who said site 'failed... by JoeAltmaier on Thursday December 06, 2018 @12:16PM (#18619935)
Unless you're a short white person, or god forbid a white woman. White women would love to have even the advantages of a black man (respected or feared instead of marginalized, become president etc)
Re:Facebook removed post by ex-manager who said site 'failed... by dang on Thursday December 06, 2018 @04:47PM (#18622604)
Please don't take HN threads into flamewar hell.

Especially not when the topic is inflammatory and the discussion has managed to remain civil so far. Then it's vandalism, if not arson.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Re:Facebook removed post by ex-manager who said site 'failed... by sj3k on Thursday December 06, 2018 @12:28PM (#18620098)
ummmmmm what?
Re:Facebook removed post by ex-manager who said site 'failed... by drharby on Thursday December 06, 2018 @12:31PM (#18620134)
I think you are missing the forest for the trees
Re:Facebook removed post by ex-manager who said site 'failed... by the_grue on Thursday December 06, 2018 @01:09PM (#18620497)
I think JoeAltmaier is right on point. There are way more disadvantageous traits than skin color, and some of them are just as bad. E.g. having low IQ. It's just as unfixable as the skin color is and probably way worse. How about being much older than everyone else? That's quite a bad thing in a workplace, even if you're just as smart and capable. But even traits such as having AIDS, having a scar through one's face or even just having really bad teeth can be unfixable for many people. Then it's correct to ask the question: why would society as a whole place the skin color at the center of its attention?

In my opinion, humans are inherently xenophobic and suspicious of anything that is unfamiliar or an outlier. Evolution shaped us this way. So you cannot eradicate all the pain, fear and suffering caused by xenophobia, not by a long shot. People with negative traits (in other people's eyes) need to learn to live with them, and they do it all the time. I am not by any means arguing for racism, of course. We still need to teach that racism is bad, but at the same time we should ask ourselves: are we blowing this thing out of proportions? If we as a society are already near the point of maximum tolerance, then insisting on further corrective measures (such as so called "affirmative action", i.e. discrimination to groups seen as the oppressors) may make things worse for everyone by raising resentment and heating up the hate as opposed to reducing it.