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> mostly white males

What is this supposed to imply, exactly?



An extreme reading: white men of the past and (some) of the present were/are racist, therefore we all are.

It should go without saying that (probably) isn't a charitable reading.


It boggles my mind how we went from a google search result to white supremacy.

I'd like people to please exercise restraint, the world feels like it is falling apart where every conversation becomes political/racial. If this is going on HN, I wonder how it is elsewhere.


Yeah, it’s a bit much. The “extreme” reading is slowly becoming the only acceptable one. Partly because of comments like the one precipitating the thread: there’s no good reason to try to connect these items.


I never said they were racist. What does it mean that someone would assume I meant that?


It probably doesn’t mean what you think or are trying to imply.


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The 'white males are the enemy of the people' is such a leftist trope that it's almost hard for me to believe someone thinks it's an alt right dog whistle.


It's the old correlation/causation problem. Being white is at the present time in history correlated wih privilege. But being white isn't the problem. The problem is how the privileged use it to lock out everyone else from the benefits they enjoy. Race and such like are irrelevant distractions.




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