Hacker News Reader

Comment by jwond | Hacker News Reader

> “No way I’m burned out. Look at all the women that are actually suffering. Who am I but a privileged white chic taking up space.”

It’s sad that so many white people have been conditioned to think this way.

View on HN

I feel that throwing in little quipits like that are an easy way to keep the discussion about your article as non-political as possible. It seems counter-intuitive, but if someone comes along and actually brings up the race issue, and it isn’t mentioned in the article, it’ll start a spiral of political/racial arguments that distract from the original article. These little remarks deflect most of it.

I guess the problem is that the author has brought it up in the article. Race has no place in this article and yet it's there.

That’s my point, by bringing it up in the article you can deflect most of the comments that would _try_ to turn the discussion towards race. Whether the author genuinely feels like that or not... who knows.

Yes. And I think his point is that you shouldn't cater to extremist behaviour. Which I agree as well. Don't pick a side as a defence. Just censor any attempts to start the war.

What's the opposite of a dog whistle?

I've read that elephants can produce very low frequency sounds (sub-20Hz) that travel long distances and can't be perceived by smaller animals.

"Elephant infrasound" just doesn't quite have the same ring to it as "dog whistle", though.

"Trunk call"?

Covid, burnout, opioids, and the commandment that we should feel guilty and shitty about all the privileges (real or imagined) that we were born with. The killer epidemics of our time.

It’s a mental illness. Imagine somebody saying “I’m just a lowly brown person” or whatever. It’s crazy to think about.

It's not a mental illness. It's a strategically placed line to fend off a specific crowd that will call you out for complaining about something when you are in a perceived privileged position.

Yeah it's getting to the point where I am wary about getting too close to other white people - especially in a 'professional' context like software - because they tend to react badly if you don't self-hate as well.

Thanks to the woke media. You should never ever feel ashamed of your skin color. It's a genetic trait and you had no control over it. Period.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28411215

Reply on news.ycombinator.com