Article Racism Debate
Commenters debate whether an article implies or involves racism and racial discrimination against people of color, arguing over the relevance of race, denying racism, or criticizing attempts to downplay it.
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Can you elaborate on the racism angle?
Because their comment is talking about race. Why do you feel the need to take attention away from that?
The article implies it has to do with the racial discrimination at people of color.
interesting, i didn't know about the racial angle, but it's thoroughly unsurprising to hear.
Keep this in mind when hacker news commenters ask the faux-innocent question "why bring race into this?"
It's clearly outright racismA question is whether the problem it raises are going to be better or worse than the problems it attempts to solve
You are absolutely right; the question of whether this is racist is a red herring. The question is really: "is this bad". You seem to think it is. How about you begin the discussion by stating how this is bad.
Not everyone would agree that was racist.
Dude this thread is buried under several flagged posts. No one is reading this. No one will care about racism here. The things we're saying won't silence anyone.However, you could still learn something. When you compare two different groups of people, be sure to have something besides "they have the same skin color" to say when someone asks the obvious follow-up question.
Discussing differences by race and implying racism are two quite different things. This article engaged in the latter, when only the former appears relevant in light of the facts.