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The scent of racism that underlies the whole “white and asian American men can’t possibly empathize with other cultures, foreign or domestic” idea seems to grow every day.

But it seems politically dangerous to even hint that you smell anything.

The fact that this post, and the Sam Altman posts, have been made invisible on this site is the millionth depressingly predictable example of why it's well past time for the people who are endlessly silenced to engineer their own solutions and not rely on the infrastructure of the current power-brokers.

I feel like it’ll take another dozen years before some people are ready to admit that “Liberal McCarthyism” is exactly what emerged around 2017.

And in the meantime, as someone who’s not interested in waiting on the current power-brokers in SV to admit to it, I think it makes sense for those who are the primary target of this new McCarthyism to engineer a way to preseve their rights.

Depending on SV’s prevailing power structure is obviously a terrible idea.

The rapid ascendency of 'bro culture' as an accepted problem in startups feels as politically manufactured as the 'alt-right' was to the 2016 election.

Both may have a whisper of truth behind them, both may have some adherents, but the numbers have been blown out of proportion because it's politically useful for some people to invent this boogieman.