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For black CEOs in Silicon Valley, humiliation is a part of doing business

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677 points saeedjabbar | 8 comments | 16 Jun 20 15:19 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source | bottom
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dang ◴[16 Jun 20 20:38 UTC] No.23543783[source]▶
This is an interesting and in-depth article that was inappropriately flagged. I've turned off the flags.

I understand the impulse to flag follow-up stories [1], especially on the hottest controversies of the moment, which always produce a flood of articles, most of which aren't very good. Curiosity and repetition don't go together [2]. But it's important to recognize the articles that are higher than median quality and not simply flag an entire category mechanically. Curiosity isn't mechanical either.

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

[2] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

[3] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

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1. anewdirection ◴[16 Jun 20 20:55 UTC] No.23543987[source]▶
I flagged it because it is an article written to promote further bias, while under the guise of 'exposing racism'. If you think promoting race politics is the goal of HN, I will find a different forum. My time in SV could not have been more different than what this boased article proports. Fuck identity politics and fuck bloomberg, and fuck you for promoting this drivel.
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2. dang ◴[16 Jun 20 21:04 UTC] No.23544098[source]▶
This pairs nicely with https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23431559.
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3. rvz ◴[16 Jun 20 21:22 UTC] No.23544337[source]▶
> It's not race politics or gender politics. It's simply a fact of life for people who aren't white males.

Or you can simply find a viable business model and remain bootstrapped without running to VCs for capital all the time, which is just like begging to have another boss, when in reality, they're creating a gigantic exit scam IPO or may pull out with their cash at anytime. [0][1]

Nothing stopping them and no excuses here.

[0] https://basecamp.com/bootstrapped

[1] https://twitter.com/chetanp/status/1205907182396395525

4. benmw333 ◴[16 Jun 20 21:27 UTC] No.23544406[source]▶
What I find interesting among the woke crowd (white leftys): they believe any claim a black person makes - especially when it is "their experience." They don't question what that person says - because they are black. It is particularly interesting that the education system is actively teaching our youth - especially black youth - that racism is prevalent today. Teaching young people that they are hated by others (albeit whites) simply because of their skin color (without evidence to the claim) is the reason why we have a race war - not because "the majority whites are keeping blacks down/killing them/etc."
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5. Aperocky ◴[17 Jun 20 02:27 UTC] No.23547042[source]▶
Hahaha let the radicals battle it out themselves, bravo.
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6. stevula ◴[17 Jun 20 02:56 UTC] No.23547217[source]▶
It’s remarkable that some people would rather believe an entire race has a victim complex than that they might be facing a legitimate injustice.
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7. benmw333 ◴[17 Jun 20 15:52 UTC] No.23552829{3}[source]▶
There is zero evidence supporting the claim that racism is prevalent - widespread in the US in 2020. None. Zip. Zero. Racism is not the majority. It is amazing to me that people are getting duped into this race war... all at the benefit of the powerful and political elite.
8. dang ◴[17 Jun 20 18:32 UTC] No.23554952{3}[source]▶
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13110004