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Comment by rhuru | Hacker News Reader

Saw the leaked IBM video and it is clearly deeply racist against white people. Glad someone is sueing them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrfVIbXKqtg

A transcribed quote from the above video:

"Let me go deeper into Red Hat, multiple leaders over the last year plus that were held accountable to the point that they're no longer here at Red Hat because they were not willing to live up to the standards." -- Paul Cormier, Chairman at Red Hat

Paul Cormier and Arvind Krishna should be fired.

Positive discrimination can see as racist, ok. (even if positive discrimination being here because of negative (generally unconscious) discrimination and because "diversity" is generally good for innovation and competitiveness).

But what here is " DEEPLY racist against white people" ?

Let's take a hypothetical situation.

A company decides it doesn't want to hire black people or Hispanic people. They decide they only want to hire whites and Asians. Any of their employees who do not meet the quotas and hire too many blacks lose bonuses or are outright fired.

Would you still ask what is deeply racist in that case?

If you have to completely ignore the historical and present status of racial discrimination in order to make your argument, it's not quite as effective as you might think it is.

Being a racist who discriminates against specific races is fine if some other people were also racist? Is that actually what you are arguing?

What would be a non 'racist against white people' way to reduce race-based discrimination against non-whites?

Not being racist to anybody would be a way to reduce racism against non-whites.

Oh, can you point to examples where racism has spontaneously disappeared?

Stop moving the goal posts.

You said that racism against non-whites can be removed by 'not being racist', these are your words.

"Positive discrimination"

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