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Comment by BurningFrog | Hacker News Reader

100x this. I told a white SJW colleague that I never felt discriminated by whites, I am a PoC. I was told "You are naive"

People take a really small sample set and paint the whole world with a very wide brush

As a white person, I'm so sorry to hear about your internalized racism. /s

In all seriousness though, this is an aspect I really detest about anything related to "diversity". It doesn't really seem like it's actually about helping anyone, but more an opportunity for white people to pat themselves on the back without really doing anything other than policing language. All the people I know who "care" about diversity only started caring when it became part of their job.

It's corporate priesthood. Their job is to defend dogmas, and their greatest enemy is reason. The moniker "dei" isn't an accident.

The parent of your comment wasn't talking about non-white people feeling discriminated by whites.

> A lot of the contemporary left (...)

You lost me here. Please stop slotting everything into 'left' or 'right'.

If you said "a lot of people" I would agree.

I've only ever seen the claims "non-whites can't be racist" and "racism is prejudice plus power" from the left, so I'm not sure what issue you're taking with him here. Sure, not every single leftist believes that tripe, but that belief is essentially exclusive to leftists. Not all mammals are dogs, but all dogs are mammals.

Or the fact that people discriminate against others, everywhere in the world! Often way worse than in the contemporary US!

There seems to be a sad irony of discrimination in this.

I agree, it is sad and HN has a tradition of not condoning this kind of comment, :shrug:. I tried to call it out, too.

@BurningFrog, your comment itself smacks of bigotry, ironically. It seems to denigrate rather than enlighten and provide a solution. Also nowhere in the parent comment does it state that the HR employee themselves was not a POC (person of color).

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