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Comment by seivan | Hacker News Reader

Wow, way to downplay his problem.

"You're white, so you can't have problems".

Perhaps the better way to say it was "you're white. You can't have workplace diversity angst. This article and discussion is about workplace diversity angst. So your advice on how to handle it isn't applicable because you don't suffer from the problem"

"you're white. You can't have workplace diversity angst."

But yes, you can! There are comments here about exactly that - white who can't fit in in chinese team, or even white in white team who can't fit in there. Skin colour isn't some magical 'fit in' trait.

Actually, I don't have super strong feelings on the topic. I was being quite literal in saying "This is what I think the OP was trying to say" vs endorsing it 100%.

How about "you're white, so your problems with fitting in with white people are probably fewer?" Your reply is completely dishonest.

edit: I'm sorry. Other people must think it's an appropriate response to misquote someone in the least favorable way possible, and try to shame them through that quote without adding a single additional thing to the conversation. I think it would be worthless in a trivial discussion. In a serious discussion, I think it's nothing but trolling.

You are being downvoted because you are trivializing someone's problem. More accurately, you claim isolation can't exist for white people.

Yes, other people have worse problems, but this doesn't make OP's problems disappear. Would you do the opposite with a happy person (other people have better lives than you so you don't deserve to be happy)?

He never said that isolation can't exist for white people. He said that an externally white appearing person has most likely fewer problems fitting in with other externally white people.

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