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Re:‘Tokenized’: Black Workers’ Struggles at Coinbase by thu2111 on Saturday November 28, 2020 @11:53AM (#25238657)
Nobody calls them "crypto bros" except the sort of people who work at the New York Times, and those sort of people routinely describe anything they don't like as racist or sexist. Bitcoin is built on the work of many people who are totally anonymous even - doesn't get more neutral or non-racist/sexist than that.
Re:‘Tokenized’: Black Workers’ Struggles at Coinbase by CryptoPunk on Saturday November 28, 2020 @03:36AM (#25236248)
Vacuous character assassination.
Re:‘Tokenized’: Black Workers’ Struggles at Coinbase by wpietri on Saturday November 28, 2020 @11:30AM (#25238476)
You claim that there's "absolutely no evidence" that racism is endemic, which is an absurd claim to make. There's enormous amounts of it. Hundreds of studies. Hundreds of books. And the daily lived experience of million of people, who you need only listen to on the Internet. But if you want a very simple, obvious one, take NBER paper 9873: https://www.nber.org/papers/w9873

One could plausibly debate the level of it. But to sweepingly declare there's absolutely no evidence isn't so much a claim of fact as a declaration of willful ignorance. Which, unfortunately, is part of why racism is still endemic. See, for example, Loewen's "Sundown Towns", where the later chapters show how America's ongoing de-facto segregation, which was born out of the Nadir, both depends on and creates the sort of refusal to see the obvious that you engage in here.

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Re:‘Tokenized’: Black Workers’ Struggles at Coinbase by wpietri on Sunday November 29, 2020 @12:47AM (#25243203)
You're conflating endemic and systemic. I clearly said one, not the other. Although you're wrong on both.

That also isn't the strongest evidence. It's just one of the easiest to understand. But given that you're going to strain at gnats and swallow camels even with the pretty basic ones, I'll leave finding the rest as an exercise to the reader.

Re:‘Tokenized’: Black Workers’ Struggles at Coinbase by CryptoPunk on Sunday November 29, 2020 @07:05AM (#25244673)
Endemic in this context is synonomous with systemic.

You ignore the evidence showing unarmed black Americans are 25 times less likely to be shot by police than unarmed white Americans in a given interaction with similar circumstances, because it doesn't fit your victimhood narrative.

You've done nothing but lob ad hominem at me for not agreeing with your completely baseless and unscientific quackery/dogma.

Re:‘Tokenized’: Black Workers’ Struggles at Coinbase by wpietri on Sunday November 29, 2020 @12:50PM (#25246665)
Well since you believe you understand what I'm saying better than I do, it seems like I'm not needed in this conversation. Have fun arguing with your straw man.
Re:‘Tokenized’: Black Workers’ Struggles at Coinbase by CryptoPunk on Sunday November 29, 2020 @09:17PM (#25250112)
The only institutional racism in America today is affirmative action that blatantly discriminates in favor of individuals belonging to supposedly disadvantages groups, or the racial victimhood ideology that leads to police shooting unarmed black individuals at 25 times lower frequencies than unarmed white individuals in similar situations.
Re:‘Tokenized’: Black Workers’ Struggles at Coinbase by wpietri on Sunday November 29, 2020 @10:03PM (#25250355)
Well since you believe you understand what I'm saying better than I do, it seems like I'm not needed in this conversation. Have fun arguing with your straw man.
Re:‘Tokenized’: Black Workers’ Struggles at Coinbase by CryptoPunk on Sunday November 29, 2020 @10:17PM (#25250416)
That's a pretty immature response, but I guess that's not surprising.
Re:‘Tokenized’: Black Workers’ Struggles at Coinbase by wpietri on Tuesday December 01, 2020 @12:50AM (#25262746)
Well since you believe you understand what I'm saying better than I do, it seems like I'm not needed in this conversation. Have fun arguing with your straw man.