Airbnb provides a lot more information about a guest than a picture.
You can be skeptical for your safety on Airbnb but it wouldn't be empirical.
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You can be skeptical for your safety on Airbnb but it wouldn't be empirical.
I haven't picked a side on this thread and I haven't encouraged violence. I pointed out that empathy isn't always the solution. I wonder if your comment also applies to American conflicts in the Middle-East.
I do empathize with Graham/Atman's position and many of the commenters here.
1) We all agree firing an employee over politics is wrong.
2) Graham/Altman say Thiel is basically an employee and ending the part-time partnership is basically firing him. We should take their word.
3) If Trump is as bad as Graham/Altman describe, Thiel actually isn't an employee, and smart/rich guys with great lawyers couldn't figure out how to distance themselves, it will look bad.
But "if" arguments are weak. There is disagreement over how bad Trump is, I think time will tell. In the meantime, from a PR standpoint, I think Y Combinator didn't handle this well. Keeping Thiel on board didn't cause this outrage, Atman's explanation and Graham's Twitter arguments did.
Empathy and fighting weren't my only options, ignore is a choice. I wonder if Atman/Graham had stayed silent for three more weeks until the election is over, would this have blown over. I also wonder how hard they fought to keep Project Include as a partner.
Yes.
Has 40% been on the wrong side of slavery, voting rights, civil rights, women's rights, gay rights?
Has more progress been made through war/assassinations/violence/riots/protest, or empathy/reasoned appeals?
There is a time for empathy, a time to ignore, and a time to fight. It's not a matter of percentage, it's a matter of wrong. Unfortunately, we don't usually have a consensus on what views are wrong until decades later.
African-American parents push for standard English as well.
African-Americans know fitting into mainstream culture improves life opportunities.
African-Americans don't actively (or passively) despise the mainstream culture.
African-Americans do complain about the reactions from people and police which affect them negatively, even when wearing a suit and speaking perfect proper English.
Is it possible black people aren't really different but are treated differently? Why?
Or maybe my reading, travel, and observations have selection bias skewed too positively.
2. Are you assuming all or most black people speak this way and/or can't speak 'properly' in proper circumstances? Do you draw the same conclusions for the vernacular of (poor) southern whites?
3. '[I]ntegrate', 'culture', and 'Uncle Tom' have real historical significance. Do African-American's simply need to speak the standard white American dialect to 'get ahead in life' or do they need to also act white? Perhaps look white?
In the recent past, not having a real education and not wearing a suit everyday severely limited your economic opportunity. Entrepreneurship in the form of "hacker culture" changed that. I think the same can happen with entrepreneurship in the form of "black culture" or any culture.
Please question assumptions, second-guess terms like hoodlum not to be politically correct but to be accurate, and know history explains a lot about why society is how it is, anthropology does too.
White isn't?
Edit: ""White" refers to a person having origins in any of the original peoples of Europe, the Middle East or North Africa. It includes people who indicated their race(s) as "White" or reported entries such as Irish, German, Italian, Lebanese, Arab, Moroccan or Caucasian."
"many of the ethnic groups classified as white by the U.S. Census, such as Jewish-Americans, Arab-Americans, and Hispanics or Latinos"
African-American's after 1 or 2 generations were slaves, after 15 generations were still slaves, after 20 generations didn't have rights, after 23 generations are over-policed and incarcerated at rates unprecedented in developed countries.
Maybe there is a difference between descendants of slavery and those who came to America voluntarily, with every legal protection, and without the assumptions that come with a 'black accent' or being from a 'black part of town'.
The Broken Window Theory will find crime in places with broken windows. Like going through your innocent looking girlfriend's phone - surveil, search, stop and frisk any neighborhood and you will find what you are looking for.
Please keep in mind what won't show up in crime statistics because they weren't illegal:
Kidnapping 12.5 million Africans, enslaving them, raping them, taking their children, hanging them, burning their homes, terrorizing them, denying their right to language/religion/reading/home ownership/voting/education/use the same classroom, swimming pool, water fountain, bus seat, restaurant, hotel as white people, and being forced to live in the "'black part of town' is always some rundown ghetto compared to the rest" otherwise known as segregation.
The solution isn't adoption by middle-class white families but by treating black people fairly before the law tells you to do so.
Voluntary segregation is a two-way street. When black people move to white neighborhoods, white people don't have to move.
"can talk back more aggressively than the others" - opinion.
"only race that seems have" - opinion.
"If I were a police officer" - I'm glad you aren't.
"I'd probably end up fining more black people" - clearly.
"My guess is that whatever gives black people a 'black accent' or voice is also what's responsible for the fining and bad subculture." - history is recorded so you don't have to guess. To fine someone for an accent is discrimination and illegal.
"they wouldn't be fined as much" - evidence please.
"I would also guess ..." - guessing is the basis of discrimination.
Rather than guess, I recommend researching for facts, ask why, make sure your facts are right, repeat. Bonus points for optimism, empathy, and assuming others want the same from life as you.
Same argument rehashed since the 1860's -
https://www.amazon.com/Slavery-Another-Name-Re-Enslavement-A...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/States%27_rights#States.27_rig...
The 1896 Supreme Court case, Plessy v. Ferguson. Among these facilities were public schools, often located just miles apart, which separated white and colored students. In almost all instances, schools which educated colored students were underfunded, extensively degraded, and/or lacked the necessary materials to rigorously challenge the students. It was also estimated that the amount of per capita expenditures devoted towards colored students was 40-50% lower than for white students, further deepening the educational inequality between the two ethnic groups.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racial_diversity_in_United_Sta...
I'm surprised segregated/poorer neighborhoods having worse services is up for debate.
Segregation had racist origins. Segregation was by race. But I concede, not everything local has a racist origin, obviously.
Whether classist, racist, or coincidence, the results are obvious.
You don't see irony in that statement?
America/Europe doesn't have to help Africa now just like they didn't have to hurt Africa for centuries before.
In general, you should clean up the mess you made. But when your meddling makes things worse, I agree, leave Africa alone finally.
We have a tendency to assume type A is qualified and type B isn't. That is a natural bias based on evidence. We must actively subdue our biases if we want to overcome them, sometimes with rules.
I think we sometimes forget that the goal isn't to get a qualified employee but a successful employee. Qualifications generally leads to success but not always, so we should constantly question our qualification criteria.
White males have benefited from discrimination for a long time. White males have been discriminated against sometimes.
This article isn't about discrimination or affirmative action. It's about setting a goal to be more diverse, not by lowering the bar, or forced hiring, but through awareness, inclusion, and an opportunity to interview.
BTW, everyone's been given a chance they didn't deserve.
I personally find tangible monetary value in employees with diverse backgrounds but I don't lower my bar. I just slightly discount sameness and slightly appreciate difference.
On one hand, overall crime in the U.S. is down and crime in New York City is really down.
I just wonder, is the goal of gentrification to fix neighborhood's ills or cheap rent in a cool area that happens to be a fantastic real estate investment?
I'm having a hard time understanding how moving people from the suburbs to the inner city and back improves anything aside from a specific geographic area for a while.
I actually agree with your overall point - unless you own, you shouldn't feel entitled to stay. You should, however, be entitled to a safe neighborhood and legitimate opportunity.
The choice is often moving from one bad neighborhood to another. Moving is expensive and a hassle for everyone, it's no wonder people don't want to move without a strong incentive.
Assumption 1: The residents are the people who ran down the neighborhood.
Assumption 2: Gentrification improves the neighborhood.
My previous comment addresses the first assumption. Feel free to disagree.
If a neighborhood is just real estate, assumption two is valid. If a neighborhood is a community of people, and gentrification moves a lot of the people, you have not improved the neighborhood, you displaced it.
Once we question these assumptions, perhaps we can address the root problems.
In other words, how was the neighborhood before it was crappy and how did it become so?
I believe you've contributed to more bitter privileged snarkiness posing as commentary.
Job creators like yourself don't need as many workers to do the same jobs as before but true innovators realize many people do want a challenge and to think. You failed to incentivize your employees. Those who utilize capital, technology, AND labor in this post industrial age will win.
We've greatly reduced death by cigarette related diseases. That was mostly a behavioral problem, so is AIDS. The rest of the items on this site seem to be scientific problems.
Not to get too political but we want to do our best to eliminate all these causes of death. Black males with AIDS seems like low hanging fruit disguised as a real problem with our society.