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But hopefully, you do find ways to point out that this is not OK. I mean, it's not OK when it's done to a minority because of them being a minority. When it's done to white males because an outfit wants more diversity... meh, I can't get too excited about it, even though I'm white and male.

Don't become an insufferable whiny brat. But don't stop trying to find effective ways to call out racism when you run into it, either.

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I really appreciate your sentiment. I will say this (and again I do agree with you): bigotry of varying degrees is so common and so engrained in society that if I were to bother to recognize its presence consistently, it would quickly become unsustainable.

I do try and find ways to point out the "not okay" aspects of situations when I can, but it is rare. Here, for example, I took a leap of faith in the HN community for it to be okay for me to criticize the knee-jerk reactions of the aforementioned respondees to the original post. For me, it's just such a "weak" reaction for said people to complain in some rare, ambiguous case that in no way relates to them personally, about discrimination against white males. "Weak" is really the only word I can come up with right now.

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