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Re:Ask HN: Concepts that clicked only years after you first ... by ShredKazoo on Monday January 02, 2023 @04:25AM (#34216021)
Yeah that's definitely an understandable feeling. But on the other hand, if representation matters (as others in this thread claim), it seems hard to please everyone? Supposing you had a group that's 100% white by accident, and they know representation matters. Because they're 100% white, they're starting from a disadvantage: If you want representation, it helps to have representation already! So from this perspective, being 10% nicer to non-whites who join the group seems like a natural solution, to overcome the chicken-and-egg problem.

Maybe the right compromise is to just be especially careful not to be rude to people who are underrepresented in the group, and not worry about it beyond that?

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Re:Ask HN: Concepts that clicked only years after you first ... by wreath on Monday January 02, 2023 @06:22AM (#34216737)
But why does representation of different skin colors matter or ethnicity matters? There are very very few occasions where it does, but in most everyday situations like work, sports etc it really doesn't. I'd rather be classified by an attribute that's relevant to the situation such as skill level or expertise rather than arbitrary attribute like my skin color, why not my height or color of my teeth instead?
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Re:Ask HN: Concepts that clicked only years after you first ... by whynaut on Monday January 02, 2023 @10:48AM (#34219153)
Didn't we already establish upthread why it matters? Why are we backtracking 5 comments deep?
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Re:Ask HN: Concepts that clicked only years after you first ... by wreath on Monday January 02, 2023 @01:54PM (#34222040)
Where was that? I must have missed it.
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Re:Ask HN: Concepts that clicked only years after you first ... by Viliam1234 on Monday January 02, 2023 @03:05PM (#34222934)
> Not seeing any person of color in an activity makes it’s so I don’t want to be the first.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34210289

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