[product50]

I have lived for 25 years in US. Never encountered racism ever - am from South Asian decent. That is saying something. Of course - there will be some people who will be racist. US, after all has 300M people and it defies probability that it will not have any racists.

However, generalizing racists and saying racism exists based on these extreme edge case doesn't make logical sense.

[joebadmo]

Have you considered perhaps that you're the edge case?

I've lived in the US my entire life. I'm East Asian. I've encountered racism.

Given two persons of minority descent, one who claims to have first-hand experience of racism, and another who claims that racism is largely a myth, why would I believe the second over the first?

[throwawayday]

why would you believe the first over the second? It boils down to your outlook on life - if you're Eeyore, everything's a dark cloud.

[potatolicious]

Racism is an edge case?

I've lived in Toronto, Vancouver, Seattle, and now SF - all diverse places by American standards. And I've experienced racism at every. single. one. Not of the pitchfork-and-lynching variety, but racism nonetheless.

I want to live where you live, where racism is an extraordinary edge case.

[wallawe]

Good luck finding anywhere in the entire world where racism doesn't exist. To say it doesn't is ignorant. It's ingrained in our evolutionary traits to have tendency to group and divide whether it be over race, culture, political or religious beliefs.

Some people don't have the intelligence however to rationally overcome the natural inclinations toward whatever bias we may subconsciously harbor. This has been true for the entirety for human civilization.

What I CAN tell you though, is that reverse discrimination by creating "black only" beauty pageants, television stations, and now incubators is not the solution to the problem and will only cause further division.

[hackinthebochs]

It's not a solution to the racism or discrimination problems, but it is a solution to the low self-esteem and self-worth problem of being from a marginalized minority.

[hackinthebochs]

Downvoters: care to weigh in why you disagree? I expect more from HN readers.

Edit: nothing like a good race discussion to bring out the lurkers and trolls.