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Dear HN: Are you racist?

4 points by djtriptych ↗ HN
Follow up questions:

How do you know?

Do you believe in "culture fit"?

Do you oppose special outreach to black coders/entrepreneurs?

Do you oppose affirmative action?

Have you ever heard of or taken Harvard's implicit association test?

Would you hesitate to hire a black programmer who scared you a little?

Do you believe that ignoring race altogether is a viable path towards harmony? Why?

Whence your concept of blackness?

Have you ever been intimate with a black person?

Have you ever worked closely with a a black person?

Let's just go ahead and talk about it.

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AnimalMuppet
I don't know you, and I don't know your intent. But how this comes across to me is, if I don't give your preferred answer to all the follow up questions, you're going to say that I am racist and unaware of it.

As I said, I don't know your intent. But if that is your intent, I reject the validity of your approach.

Some specific answers:

I would hesitate to hire a programmer who scared me a little. Black has nothing to do with it.

Real racial harmony is when race is just one more thing. It's not ignored, but it's just another piece of information. "He's black. She's Indian and vegetarian. He's got tattoos and ear gauges. He's got big hair. She runs marathons." And we can talk to him or her about race just like we can about marathons or tattoos or vegetarianism.