wow. way to go about ignoring and denying your privileges, mister straight white man!
why on earth is that bigoted drivel on the front page of HN?
why on earth is that bigoted drivel on the front page of HN?
I understand what he's trying to say, but the self-contradiction ("I think it is always an error to talk about sexism, but I'm going to talk about it anyway") shows that he's missing whatever point he's trying to respond to. Plus, its not at all a different take.
Are you talking about affirmative action or quota hires as an institutionalized privilege of minorities? If so, then what about institutionalized discrimination of minorities?(eg education of the average black student at an inner-city school way underfunded, relative to the majority).
Even most proponents of AA are ready to concede that it should be done differently, but its not fair to rail against the evils of "reverse discrimination" without at least acknowledging present-day, ordinary structural discrimination.
I can only imagine you're referring to affirmative action, which I would say has done little to undo generations of structural inequality.