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Re:Trapped in Silicon Valley’s hidden caste system by oh_sigh on Tuesday March 01, 2022 @09:48PM (#30523054)
The "+ power" only exists in deep academic redefinitions of racism(where many terms are redefined away from their commonplace meaning), and leftist twitter which latched onto the former for some reason.

Most normal Americans, if asked to rank the statements "Black people are disgusting pigs", and "White people are disgusting pigs", would rank them as equally racist, regardless of whether white or black people have "power" in America.

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Re:Trapped in Silicon Valley’s hidden caste system by andybak on Wednesday March 02, 2022 @08:46AM (#30527237)
But didn't the term originally come from academia? I'd be curious to know about the actual etymology here.

It's not uncommon for words to have a technical meaning and a colloquial one. I don't see HN getting upset that "theory" is used differently by those awful academics compared to the common man.

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