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> "Here's a thing," young white dude founder blogs...

If he would've said black instead of white or dudette instead of dude, Hacker News would have had this guy's header on a platter. Racists, the lot of you.

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Nope, he's asserting that the founders come from privileged groups. Punching up is acceptable, punching down is not.

What about the young white dudes who are unemployed, or work in menial jobs, or dropped out of school and joined the army because they suddenly had to support a child, etc.? Do they deserve to be vilified because there is someone else who is successful and happens to be the same color and sex?

How are they being vilified?

By having "white guy" treated as an insult, obviously.

Great metaphor. Stealing it. Thanks.

Thanks, but not mine. :) I think this may be the original:

http://reasonableconversation.wordpress.com/2012/07/19/punch...

You might have the category wrong. It's making fun of founders for being casually ageist and racist. Or to be more specific, privileged and oblivious.

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