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Re:Adria Richards, PyCon, and How We All Lost by mtoddh on Friday March 22, 2013 @09:13AM (#5422670)
you're being an idiot

Says the guy who resorts to name-calling.

White male is the most privileged thing to be

No, being an upper middle-class white male is the most privileged thing to be.

not some down trodden, exploited minority

Think positive, maybe one day a minority might become president.

Re:Adria Richards, PyCon, and How We All Lost by flyinRyan on Friday March 22, 2013 @10:37AM (#5423144)
>Says the guy who resorts to name-calling.

Notice I said being an idiot. Name calling would be saying that he was an idiot as a state of being. I didn't say that, nor do I believe it.

>No, being an upper middle-class white male is the most privileged thing to be.

If you have to be poor or middle class you want to be white male. Do you honestly think you'd be better off being poor and black or poor and a woman? Maybe some day we'll get there but we're not there today.

>Think positive, maybe one day a minority might become president.

Yes, one half-black person getting elected president means there is absolutely no racism of any sort (never mind all the racial motivated attacks Obama has had to deal with since before getting elected...).

Re:Adria Richards, PyCon, and How We All Lost by Tichy on Friday March 22, 2013 @11:10AM (#5423392)
Your comparison is odd. If you are poor, you are poor. So a poor woman, poor black male and a poor white male would be equally poor.

Seems to me more interesting is the risk of being poor. I think you'll find that there are a lot more poor men than poor women. I guess this is the case because 90% of homeless are male, and men tend to be more prominent on the extremes (more rich men and also more poor men than rich/poor women). Feel free to research the actual data, though.