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>>ericza+(OP)
>'I Don't Live in a World Where Fairness is an Option'

This sums it up perfectly. So many times I am asked what I think of all this as a black person in tech. I don't think anything of it. It simply is how things are. You can either live with that chip on your shoulder, or learn the skills to navigate life with the cards you were dealt and deal with it. There is no other option, and how you feel about it is irrelevant. Some people are born with physical disabilities or mental handicaps. It's no different. Should we live in a world without racism? Of course. But we should also live in a world without war, poverty, and disease as well. It's a part of the human condition.

>>aphext+h5
This is such a defeated mindset. You're welcome to it all you want, but some of us aren't willing to settle.

>>beepbo+vr
It's telling that what you said is such an unpopular sentiment when the article is literally about those of us who won't settle.

I wonder how many people are reading this person's quote and assuming the angle of the article matches what they wanted to hear.

>>Booris+XB
That sort of logic doesn't work in cases like this, and it leads to a lot of misperceptions. The readership (and votership) is a large statistical cloud, with wide variance of views and feelings and assumptions. It's not only natural but inevitable that some take one angle and some take another. The people who upvoted this article are likely to have done so for straightforward reasons, such as that they think it's interesting and want to see it discussed.

The GP comment probably wouldn't have been downvoted if it had been more substantive. It's a bit hard to read where it's coming from, "this is such a defeated mindset" has a touch of name-calling about it (which is against the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html), "you're welcome to it all you want" has a touch of personal attack about it, and "some of us aren't willing to settle" would make a fine opening for saying more—like what that means, and why, and above all, sharing some of the experience that has led to that position—but it doesn't make a good closing for a one-liner.

>>dang+EC
My question wasn't sarcastic, I really wonder how many did so. I'm not saying the majority of people did, but even based on the replies to the comment, the answer is more than 0, it'd be interesting/amusing to know how many did (even though that's impossible)

> The GP comment probably wouldn't have been downvoted if it had been more substantive.

My 700 word reply with the same sentiment was at -1 within seconds. It only just got back to 1.

Now, I didn't write that to be popular, it's an intentionally uncomfortable comment if you're someone who agrees with the top level comment and I wanted it to be. The fact is, the audience here has shown time and time again they'd rather bury talk about uncomfortable conflict involving race.

Imagine this comment was downvoted, but multiple comment chains saying black people should just accept racism is a thing and "move on" are being propped up above it...

This isn't the first time I've seen this here, and it won't be the last. At the end of the day, HN's demographic reflects the demographics of the industries it intersects, and diversity is not high at all within them.

That allows people to bury their heads in the sand so to speak, these are uncomfortable conversations and they'd rather not have them