Re:Launch HN: BlackOakTV (YC S21) – Netflix for black people
by pjc50 on Friday August 06, 2021 @11:11AM
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> because someone decided to come up with a way (race) to divide people into groups where one group is bound to end up smaller
Well, yes, and this was codified into US law until the last bits were finally suppressed in the 1960s, but that doesn't mean the underlying racism has been eliminated as well.
Re:Launch HN: BlackOakTV (YC S21) – Netflix for black people
by afavour on Friday August 06, 2021 @10:35AM
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I'm sympathetic to that viewpoint but as the sibling comment pointed out, America is 76.3% white. If the push is "remove all the divisions, everyone is part of one group" then the interests of the majority within that group will dominate.
Re:Launch HN: BlackOakTV (YC S21) – Netflix for black people
by RHSeeger on Friday August 06, 2021 @10:45AM
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I believe that 76.3% includes hispanics, and hispanics are considered a minority. When people talk about whites being the majority, my inclination is to assume they're talking about non-hispanic. That lowers the percentage to around 60% or so (I'm not sure on that number); still a majority, but not as much so.
Re:Launch HN: BlackOakTV (YC S21) – Netflix for black people
by werber on Friday August 06, 2021 @10:30AM
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The United States is 76.3% white ( https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/US/PST045219 ), it's not a division it's a number, there are just literally less people of color in the country, a minority of the population.
Re:Launch HN: BlackOakTV (YC S21) – Netflix for black people
by csmpltn on Friday August 06, 2021 @10:35AM
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> "The United States is 76.3% white ( https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/US/PST045219 ), it's not a division it's a number, there are just literally less people of color in the country, a minority of the population."
Will it be racist to continue using this terminology then, once the US reaches 50-50?
Re:Launch HN: BlackOakTV (YC S21) – Netflix for black people
by rootusrootus on Friday August 06, 2021 @12:02PM
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60% if you exclude Hispanics. Which, of course, raises its own questions about categorizations and who gets to make the definitions.
IMO the solution to that problem is definitely not to reinforce that division.