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This entire thread is about "discrimination" for the purposes of introducing black girls to programming. Is that not a positive for society?

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> This entire thread is about "discrimination" for the purposes of introducing black girls to programming. Is that not a positive for society?

Are you justifying racism via economic output? I've seen this line of reasoning go horribly wrong before..

Obviously teaching people how to be productive is good. But what about teaching people to discriminate against others? If we were to argue from principle, I would agree that racism is not a virtue. That said, I don't adhere to principled reasoning 100% of the time and would be happy to help "black girls" code.

Stop conflating discrimination based on race and racism. They are not the same. Go study some history if you don't believe me.

And just because I know this is coming: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6976062

Quit trying to intellectualize your racist approach to moral righteousness. It's coming across as desperate. If you have a principled argument to make, now would be a good time. If all you have is more false analogies then I think I've had enough.

You have literally said nothing of substance in any of your responses to me.

True.

I wonder how it looks.

A non-black girl/boy comes along and says that they want to participate, too. The black girls/their instructors tell them to piss off because they are not black and a girl to boot? If this is not racist, I don't know what is.

How about a program for any children under a certain age - be they black or not? If they wanted to include more of the under-represented minorities in the program, they could promote it more heavily in the areas where the minorities tend to live/congregate. Such approach would achieve a similar goal without being racist.

You're right, you really don't know what racism is.

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