Learning Haskell – A Racket programmer's foray into the land of Haskell

Re:Learning Haskell – A Racket programmer's foray into the l... by icebraining on Thursday March 12, 2015 @03:38AM (#9189526)

You do realize that by saying "in my experience, people do X are more likely to be Y", you're doing the exact same thing you're criticizing?

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Re:Learning Haskell – A Racket programmer's foray into the l... by codygman on Thursday March 12, 2015 @12:34PM (#9191876)

"(Minorities) who do X are more likely to be Y"

and

"(Privileged) are more likely to reinforce their privilege (because the don't see their privilege and/or want to keep it)"

are two different things.

At face value these to things look the same, but upon examination it's only a convenient simplification.

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Re:Learning Haskell – A Racket programmer's foray into the l... by icebraining on Thursday March 12, 2015 @02:37PM (#9192801)

The first post (who you were assuming stuff about) said nothing about any minorities.

The fact is, regardless of how you paint it, you're making prejudiced assumptions about him/her based the fact that (s)he belongs to the group of "people who write 'he' when talking about coders of unknown gender".

Assuming that (s)he is "privileged" is just yet another prejudice, not a fact upon which to base your opinion.

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Re:Learning Haskell – A Racket programmer's foray into the l... by codygman on Friday March 13, 2015 @09:56PM (#9201241)

> Assuming that (s)he is "privileged" is just yet another prejudice, not a fact upon which to base your opinion.

???

Men are more privileged than women, that is fact.

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