Comment by anjc | Hacker News Reader

Comment by anjc | Hacker News Reader

This is a very whiny article, and I find it funny that by the end of an article filled with the sentiment that racism in cooking is bad, that white people are just as capable, he finishes off by effectively saying that white people are better:

> [the white cook has] probably had to train a lot harder and knows a little bit more about what is actually going on then, let’s say, someone who can just land a sushi job just because he is Asian; in that sense, they literally bring nothing to the table besides being Asian.

On top of this, I find it troubling that diversity complaints and gender quotas are now apparently being aimed at legal/loved/admired cultural traditions. If Japanese sushi kitchens are mainly run by Japanese men...let them at it. What harm is it to you or anyone? As a white male, I don't expect that I'd be let become a geisha any time soon, and that seems fair enough to me...?

He's not saying that white people are better.

He's saying that people who had overcome institutional racism are better.

I don't think that he was talking about a white sushi chef from Kansas who have never been to Japan here.

> He's saying that people who had overcome institutional racism are better.

He specifically says 'white'

Context.

I'm not saying the racism the author has experienced is right, it sucks, it's wrong, and I actually know how he feels because I have had similar experiences with race in my own life. But I have read A LOT of arguments on HN trying to downplay or outright deny racism in tech, when that black engineering leader at Twitter quit, and for the combative white people there, who seemed to refuse to deny that racism existed here, but sympathize with this white guy here, let me ask you this:

Why should sushi restaurants lower their standards and let this white guy into their established restaurant, just for the sake of diversity? Sushi restaurants are all for equality, but we would never want them to lower their standards and serve lower quality food right? Also, if this white guy really wants to get in, he needs to change his culture. That laziness, loudness, and lack of respect for tradition will never get him anywhere in the sushi world.

So, let me get this straight: this comment is actually not about this topic, but about another topic with some black guy from twitter, and you're using this situation to look back at that previous post from before from another angle?

It's an honest question, because I tried to understand what point are you trying to make in context of this post, and failed.

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