Racism is baked into patent systems

Re:Racism is baked into patent systems by mytailorisrich on Wednesday November 11, 2020 @12:38PM (#25060578)

> Reading Vats’s book is an important step. So are efforts to empower Black and brown communities to protect their knowledge systems from Western commodification

Why this attempt to reduce people to their skin colours and to imply that non-white people are not Western? Also, what about East Asians, then?

Frankly this obsession with race and the anti-Western trope is offensive and, in fact, racist and the attempt to pass off patent systems as racist is plain bullshit.

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Re:Racism is baked into patent systems by barnabees on Wednesday November 11, 2020 @01:50PM (#25061477)

Let me guess, you're white (or at the very least you haven't had to worry about your race for most of your life).

For other people race matters a lot and affects their daily lives; dismissing these arguments by saying that people are obsessed with their race is such an ignorant and unfair generalization that shits on anyone who has been discriminated based on their race.

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Re:Racism is baked into patent systems by mancerayder on Wednesday November 11, 2020 @02:00PM (#25061588)

Anyone who starts a counter with 'Let me guess, you're a...' has already lost the argument and is lashing out, grey them out.

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Re:Racism is baked into patent systems by barnabees on Wednesday November 11, 2020 @06:22PM (#25064220)

Nice generalization there, unfortunately you're wrong.

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