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What evidence do you have that hard work won't help you succeed academically today? Plenty of minority students have succeeded in academics through hard work. And how is that Asians managed to avoid this problem as a group? They didn't face any discriminitation?


https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34673386

See this list for a very small start into understanding why the same amount of "hard work" won't help a black person succeed academically in America.


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And my grandparents either didn't live within 1,000 miles of me or died before the 3rd grade. Yet I learned algebra all the same.

Your links don't actually substantiate the claim that you're making. That's why people keep asking you to substantiate the claims that you're making about lower reward for the same level of academic success, and why your continuous referral back to these links is pointless. And now you're resorting to flagging comments because you can't refute them.

If my comments are so toxic, the correct course of action as per the HN guidelines is to not respond - which you have evidently not done.

> I didn't once call anyone here a racist person.

Yes, you did, here [1]

> What we do see are the systemic effects of an entire society normalizing a whole host of racist behaviors, including trying to play the struggle Olympics by comparing one racial group (who have a whole different set of issues) to another.

You wrote this in response to my comparison of Asian and Black admission rates, in response to your claim that Black people are not rewarded for academic success. In your response explicitly called the comparison of racial groups racist. Sure, you didn't call me racist. You just called what I did in the previous comment racist - as though I can't connect the dots.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34673876


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When you call something racist that someone just did, you're calling that person racist. This is one of the weakest dodges I've seen.


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> Non-racist people can be very racist.

Shroedinger's racism: the person is simultaneously racist and non-racist at the same time.

You edited your comment after my response, that's what it read before you changed it to "...say and do very racist things."




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