anewguy99

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by anewguy99 14y ago
Am I the only one that gets uncomfortable when white people are treated as an undifferentiated, malevolent mass?
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by anewguy99 14y ago
There is no time like a tragic death to collect some karma for hating whitey.
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by anewguy99 14y ago
Unless its Chuck Hagel or Rand Paul.
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by anewguy99 14y ago
Dehumanizing individuals by identifying them with some genetically defined class is always wrong, even if the individual is a member of a class that it is PC to hate on.
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by anewguy99 14y ago
Disparate impact is certainly a component of systematic bias. It may be true that a white American with a prestigious college degree has advantages in life compared to an Asian American with a prestigious college degree. But the fact that a
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by anewguy99 14y ago
I am fairly certain that a black woman going to a high school where 90%+ of graduates are going to university will have many more advantages in life than a white boy attending a high school where ~10% of graduates go to university. I don't
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by anewguy99 14y ago
I've always found concepts of privilege to be lacking explanatory power. A European-derived culture is dominant in America, but east-Asian Americans still manage to do better than whites in education and in earnings. If racial privilege is
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by anewguy99 14y ago
This isn't the first time that I've seen anti-white racism on Hacker News[1]. The emotion behind theories of class privilege gets separated from its intellectual content, and people think it is okay to say things like this to their fellow h