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Is there any indication they're suffering actual discrimination? Pay gaps, harassment, disproportionately not-hired or fired?

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Like all racism, how much you encounter it really depends on where you live.

A white person living in the Big Island of Hawaii.. almost daily.

Unless Github's located in Hawaii, I'm not sure how that's relevant.

Github is predominantly white and located in SF. Are white employees there suffering significant "actual discrimination" as the post a couple levels up alleges?

No.

Is it a problem for you? If so, and you didn't live there as a child, many people would just suggest that you move. Colonialism isn't history in Hawai'i.

It never really bothered me when I lived on O'ahu. I know the difference between "damn haoles" and "fuckin' haoles", and I know which one I am.

Yes, my sense of entitlement is being challenged.

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