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drquaithe t1_j5i0z5r wrote

Reply to comment by BaalHammonBePraised in Racial diversity in top tech & biotech companies [OC] by teamongered

Because the USA was built by genocide and slavery and what it is now is their direct descendant. You can't understand much about it in any kind of precise way without factoring in race.

It's like measuring something about the British Isles and lumping together the statistics for England and Ireland. Or talking about austerity in the EU without factoring in the difference in its effects on the southern Europe vs central and northern. It will miss the picture.

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santimo87 t1_j5kv908 wrote

While I agree with all of that, some of these race based statistics are super weird (not exactly OP). Also, Hispanic is not a race and for a society that (understandably) pays so much attention to race (and has a big hispanic population) you should have figured out a better way to incorporate hispanic people and their issues to your analyses.

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streamofstars t1_j5izeoj wrote

>Because the USA was built by genocide and slavery and what it is now is their direct descendant.

Come on, this is a historical cliche for like 3/4 of countries in both Americas. But it's only the US that cannot get over it.

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drquaithe t1_j5k8mie wrote

Oh my sweet summer child. You should look at current events and political tensions in basically any country in either of the Americas and the Caribbean, and many of the countries beyond.

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AdRepresentative5085 t1_j5j0zl4 wrote

To be fair, when you have one pov that misses the "good ol' days" you're bound to find resistance. It doesn't help this pov has spawned another opposite fringe group.

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It hasn't been more than 100 years since past segregation, so the next generation is bound to feel the effects.

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