Re:Ask HN: How many YC companies have African American foun...
by javert on Thursday December 26, 2013 @02:57PM
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You are taking an irrelevant afterthought to my main point and focusing on it. By "fetishing" I mean "treating as extremely important in a way that reality does not justify."
> I'm merely saying that to insist that race not be part of the conversation is a passive approach to maintaining the status quo.
I'm fine conversing about race. But I don't think that you are actually advocating simply for more conversation. I think you are trying to oppose what I am advocating.
I am advocating that as individuals, we should treat other individuals in a colorblind way. I do not think that that would maintain the status quo, I think it would significantly improve the status quo over time.
> I'm merely saying that to insist that race not be part of the conversation is a passive approach to maintaining the status quo.
I'm fine conversing about race. But I don't think that you are actually advocating simply for more conversation. I think you are trying to oppose what I am advocating.
I am advocating that as individuals, we should treat other individuals in a colorblind way. I do not think that that would maintain the status quo, I think it would significantly improve the status quo over time.