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by cocktailpeanuts 3287 days ago
Where do you get the idea that HN is full of "white" people?

Your sound like you see yourself as a non-racist, but you probably don't realize that you are actually being racist yourself by making these comments.

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Given the stats on diversity in silicon valley, not exactly an out of touch statement.
SV is significantly overrepresented with east and south Asians, compared to the general US public. If you wanted to make SV match the general US demographics, they'd have to hire more white people.

Just because black people specifically are underrepresented in SV doesn't mean that it's (racially) non-diverse.

HN isn't just silicon valley folks
More than that, part of silicon valley's diversity is (iirc) an unusually high representation of asian men; an assumption of whiteness wouldn't get you far.