| My favorite part about this response isn't the "non sequitur strawman", although that's amazing in and of itself. It's the assumption that I'm not a descendant of a slave and have no insight based purely on a post in which no mention of ancestry or race happened. It's like the old meme about tying a buttered piece of toast to a cat, they spin in the air indefinitely. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buttered_cat_paradox Am I hire-able? I aint white, so presumably you SHOULD hire me to help with racism. yet I rename my main branch to master on all personal projects. So the question becomes, do the above posters hire me or not? Presumably no since I have the wrong opinion but if they refuse to hire me they're furthering racial inequities so then presumably yes. Of course, this paradox goes away the second you acknowledge both are stupid reasons to hire or fire anyone. --- Here's the real problem with the other posters. A complete and utter lack of respect for the effects of their decisions on the lives of other people. It's why I'm such a fan of the following C.S Lewis quote https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/justin-taylor/lewis... > Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. |