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They see the drip-drip-drip of "brown" people unfurling the Mexican flag, municipal swimming pools with men-only hours and University foot baths.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/miriam-rosenbaum/womens-only-s...

http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/muslim-footbaths-threaten...

http://www.newsweek.com/white-nationalists-are-right-america...

People are sick and tired of anti-white (pro-nonwhite) de jure policies and replacement immigration. They feel this country is their rightful homeland and are angry that they had no vote in being replaced. These reactions could have been predicted and were. I guess you can call that "racist" and "white supremacist" but the name-calling just eggs them on and is "not an argument." Instead, let's explain why the white era that started in Athens is now over and that's just natural progress. And if they are genocided in the process well that would be sad. Or I guess we could just dox them.

When I was a kid I never heard of peanut allergies. What happened? Did children's guts change? Did peanuts?

only if they resist lawful orders

when Hispanic bisexual women take over this world and start abusing their privilege like the cishetero patriarchy then we will criticize them. Until then, please sit down.

these misogynist women-hating lunks turn my stomach. They need to terminated immediately, be humiliated on social media and have their careers ruined forever. They can wear their stupid war jackets while they cry.

probably better to be silent than to feed the alt-right, neo-Nazi trolls. Why can't privileged white people just keep quiet and listen for a while. It's time we recognize the tremendous contribution to computer science made by African-Americans. There is no place on HN for intolerance and hate.

Thank you thank you thank you. This is an exhausting post but your comment makes it so easy to understand!

We will be finally able to concentrate on intersectional feminist theory and inclusion when all the fucking white racists are dead.

I thought I was the only one who though this. I am not a software engineer the same way I am not a software doctor or a software banana for that matter. Reminds me of, was it Rosanne Barr?, who coined "Domestic Engineer" and we all laughed. Words matter. I can see from these comments that we are alone but at least it's not just me anymore!

Is using human common sense out of the question? Too many images? Too hard? Who would decide?

Do you think he would vote for that? Or, like similar systems in the last century, would some, let's say state encouragement, be required?

Voluntary charity is always an option for you. Don't most people mean mandatory, state-controlled taking from you to give to someone else when discussing this subject? Would you support "measurably reducing" my income so you don't get robbed? So I don't get robbed?

I hear much concern, not necessarily from you, about the effects on productivity of taking. Do you fear any effects on people's psyche, self-esteem for instance, of giving?

Beloved FDR, in his state 1935 SOTU address said "To dole out relief in this way is to administer a narcotic, a subtle destroyer of the human spirit."

http://www.albany.edu/faculty/gz580/his101/su35fdr.html

I worry that hundreds if not thousands of years of various types of market economics has ingrained much into our humanity, and that progressive notions like UBI and redistribution will have deleterious unintended consequences.

If I get a check for X and my cardiologist gets a check for X as well why would anyone put in the work to become a cardiologist? For his love of mankind? For social status? Serious question. Didn't the 20th-century Marxists try this?

human supremacism!

Alex Epstien, who is widely despised, has written, in The Moral Case For Fossil Fuels that to withhold cheap abundant energy, and the technology it enables, from the world's emerging populations is immoral and fundamentally anti-human. Supported by people who think this Earth would be a much better place if Man never set his filthy foot upon it.

Wow the bigotry. What is wrong with you? These tests are created and scored by privileged white people.

You are absolutely right. I stand corrected. He just really annoyed me and I guess it still stings.

This is very refreshing. Diversity is a key to strength but seeing a woman present tech stuff is my preference at a tech conference. I was at a conference recently and I heard a neckbeard, seeing a woman warming up for the presentation we just sat down for, say something dismissive about another diversity talk. He actually left without sitting down. His loss. The talk was pure tech gold.

As the OP says, the diversity presentations should be left to the diversity professionals.

I wish left, right and center could come together just this once to urge young black men to not fight with police. If you feel their authority is unjustified or they are punks then you really need to handle that politically. The police are duly authorized by the state however flawed and racist that state may be, to use deadly force. The are armed with government-issued, free firearms. Fighting with them leads to your death. If that isn't your goal, i.e., martyrdom for political gain then it's a bad idea. Lets urge the young black men to submit to lawful orders and take issue later in a court of law.

Is this software engineering privilege? Are we shooting for universal equality?

I worry about this mentioning occupations' "prestige." That seems to be incompatible with our goals of universal equality. We shouldn't discount gender bias because of privilege.

Is anybody studying the reasons behind the huge gender disparity in roofing, welding or kindergarten teaching? I think there is a tremendous gender bias in those and other fields that is going unstudied, because nobody cares or because those fields aren't as cool or important.

> Grandma ... should definitely be ... culpable

Not downvoting just suggesting that the sarcasm might detract from comprehensibility for English learners. It detracts nothing from the point by just saying plainly that she should not be.

Our rich nation should throw open its arms to these marginalized community members. Diversity is our strength! All cultures are the same except when they're driven by hate and xenophobia like the Republicans. The hand-ups provided by this stingy country to people just seeking a better life was disgusting. Western Civilization, TEAR DOWN THIS WALL!

> Twilio is a company built against the prevailing Silicon Valley wisdom of "how companies are built"

Sell NYSE:TWLO!

I think even HeavenCo would have one disgruntled employee. And all it takes is one. This is chilling.

Maybe GitHub will start to look like America with its gorgeous mosaic of diversity and we will finally be able to get some African-American and female perspectives on OSS. Change yourselves! Change the world!

Alex Epstien, who is widely despised, has written, in _The Moral Case For Fossil Fuels_ that to withhold cheap abundant energy, and the technology it enables, from the world's emerging populations is immoral and fundamentally anti-human. Supported by people who think this Earth would be a much better place if Man never set his filthy foot upon it.