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

So you are saying that although black people are around 1/8 of the US population, we should hire only around 2% black people, because otherwise we would be wasting more intelligent people on manual labor?

You realize the implicit argument there, right?

Can you recommend anything? I do enjoy the content here, and some of the people are really great, but the level of wokeness is just absurd. I got some people chasing me from here on other networks just because I dared to say my opinion. Thanks for speaking your mind btw. Obviously you had to be downvoted as well

What's your public key? I don't want to drop names in plaintext because I don't want my favorite communities to be targeted by anything resembling an angry mob (not a certainty, but stranger things have happened).

I say you should hire the people who hve the skills and do the work, not trying to hire 1/8 blacks just because. If I would guess, I would say that the reason for that disparity is the average economical status and environment. I've lived among the white trash long enough to know that most of them won't go anywhere, and it's not entirely their own fault. Why should a struggling white kid have it any different than a black kid? That's just pure racism. Trying to make every poverty stricken black successful will have the same effect that trying to elevate all the poor in every other race. Why should it be reserved for some special priviledge group?

Don't put words in my mouth, you sound like CNN "journalist".

First, I don't know what people I belong to in your little fantasy, but please be so kind as to share.

Second, there is a difference between a space in which you can say anything and a place that you can say only the things you are allowed to say. In the first case you have a public discourse, in the second you have public outrage. Essentially HN is becoming a safe space for woke people.

Do you not really see anything wrong with stalking people online, or for that matter even in real life, just because they have different opinions than you?

He's not looking for a safe space, he's just looking for a space he won't be deleted from.

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Please don't post flamewar comments to HN.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23549654.

From your previous comment:

> I'm looking at the generation of white males in their 30 and it is just sad. What was done to their dreams and opportunities was a crime.

Does the same not apply to all the black males, females, etc., who were graduating and entering the job market during the financial crisis of 2008?

It is not as though your observations are incorrect, they are incomplete, and this is what the parent comment was alluding to, and what many people just don't have a contextual basis for understanding. The term "racism" in the US generally refers to hundreds of years of systematic prejudice and violence against people of color, that is still ongoing today. Discrimination against people based on their skin color - for example against white people - is morally abhorrent but in a completely different category. It is hard to see white privilege when you are white living among white people, it's just a fact of life. If you really want to understand, you'll have to try to see the world from a different viewpoint. The lack of this viewpoint is why you feel people are trying to put words in your mouth, it's nothing personal, it's a systemic problem in which all of us to a greater or lesser extent play a part.

So it's ok to post stuff like "For black CEOs in Silicon Valley, humiliation is a part of doing business" when there are literally black mobs looting on the streets, and it's not an inflamatory thing, but it's not ok to say how it looks from the other side? Please just block my account already.