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Re:BritRuby cancelled due to a lack of racial and gender div... by hugh4life on Monday November 19, 2012 @08:01AM (#4804160)
"So no, complaining about the lack of non-white people is not racist."

Implying that all white people are the same and that there is no internal diversity within white people is racist.

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Re:BritRuby cancelled due to a lack of racial and gender div... by rmc on Monday November 19, 2012 @10:18AM (#4804663)
No-one suggested that.
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Re:BritRuby cancelled due to a lack of racial and gender div... by obstacle1 on Monday November 19, 2012 @12:37PM (#4805391)
By definition complaining about a panel's being "100% white males" is suggesting the lowest common denominator of skin color and gender. The twitter complainers in this case did not care about the panel's nationalities, ethnicities, first languages, etc., just that they were white. The suggestion is clear.
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