That's exactly how it went down in one of my companies HR "listening circles" in February.
The blind employee is married to a woman who immigrated to the US from Japan. He was being lectured by a young semi-useless data scientist who grew up in a wealthy suburb just outside of Dearborn. I'm totally making all of this up in your eyes because you don't like what you're hearing.
Please don't take HN threads further into flamewar. You've done it repeatedly in this thread, unfortunately, and have even crossed into personal attack. That's not cool, regardless of how wrong someone else is or you feel they are.
We've had to ask you several times in the past not to do these things. Would you please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and take the intended spirit of this site to heart? We'd appreciate it. We're trying to have an internet forum that doesn't suck, if possible, and using HN for these acrimonious battles contributes to destroying this place. The site guidelines are the way they are for good reason and they need to take precedence.
> ...white people were uniquely tainted by the slave trade that some of their ancestors engaged in.
Is that a quote? It sounds like you are paraphrasing your perception of someone's point in the least favorable possible way. If the guy really said "white people are tainted," then he might suck and I hope you pushed back.
The blind employee is married to a woman who immigrated to the US from Japan. He was being lectured by a young semi-useless data scientist who grew up in a wealthy suburb just outside of Dearborn. I'm totally making all of this up in your eyes because you don't like what you're hearing.
Cognitive dissonance is uncomfortable.