Rent a Minority

I&#x27;ve stated this multiple times on HN. As a minority, I&#x27;ve not witnessed any discrimination in my 12+ years in the US&#x2F;SV. While my experience might be an anecdote, I still find claims of discrimination based on minority status a little hard to believe in silicon valley, taking the experience of my friends and family into consideration.<p>However, I do find women, regardless of race&#x2F;religion, to be more subjected to discrimination and harassment.<p>Additionally, the response to [1] in the FAQ by the site author is the most unadulterated form of (reverse) racism that continues it&#x27;s meteoric rise in acceptance in the media. Tragic!<p>[1]: &quot;I AM A STRAIGHT WHITE MAN AND I FEEL EXCLUDED BY THIS. CAN YOU MAKE YOUR SITE A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT ME, ME, ME?&quot;

<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;rentaminority.com&#x2F;hire-us&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;rentaminority.com&#x2F;hire-us&#x2F;</a><p><i>So, yes, this is a joke. Obviously. You can stop getting angry now. Or get angry, but get angry at what Rent-a-Minority is angry about. The site is a #satire on a type of tokenism that is particularly rife in the tech and media world.</i>

Rarely did bring a title such a broad smile to my face. And it turned in roaring laughter when going through the page.<p>Absolute brilliant :)

Some of the stories on the stories page [0] are pretty egregious, but some of them are just how the brain works.<p>When you meet or see someone, you automatically try to categorize people. For now at least, that includes trying to figure out gender and ethnicity. Many of our parents or grandparent had very distinct prejudices. Also, for better or for worse, ethnicity still has a huge impact on someone&#x27;s circumstances.<p>It was only a couple years ago that someone finally pushed back on the question &quot;where are you from&quot; to me. Before that, I would never have thought of it being objectionable. I also think context is important here. There&#x27;s nothing wrong with finding out the ethnic ancestry of your friends, but maybe it&#x27;s not an appropriate question when you first meet someone.<p>I&#x27;m sad to say that I don&#x27;t actually know many of my Indian coworkers full names, simply because they are so different from people I was raised around.<p>0. <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;rentaminority.com&#x2F;stories&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;rentaminority.com&#x2F;stories&#x2F;</a>

Pretty much a blatant rip-off of: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;livingcivil.com&#x2F;disturbing-craigslist-ad-for-renting-a-nigga&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;livingcivil.com&#x2F;disturbing-craigslist-ad-for-renting-...</a>

From the FAQ:<p>&gt;I AM A STRAIGHT WHITE MAN AND I FEEL EXCLUDED BY THIS. CAN YOU MAKE YOUR SITE A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT ME, ME, ME?<p>&gt; I&#x27;m sorry that your feelings are hurt. I have listened to your feedback and, in response, am currently working on rentamajority.com. Stay tuned. In the meantime, thank you for your interest in maintaining the status quo. I mean, &#x27;equality&#x27;, it&#x27;s overrated, right?<p>This part seems uncool to me. It&#x27;s posturing straight white men as very self-absorbed, and precluding any concerns or opinions they might have about this, dismissing them merely for being a straight white man. Which seems quite hypocritical, right?

It&#x27;s hilarious, and to be honest, I wouldn&#x27;t be all that surprised if there was a startup tone-deaf enough to actually form around the concept.<p>&quot;Booth babes&quot; are still a thing, stupid and sleazy as that is.

This adversarial discourse doesn&#x27;t help anyone.<p>EDIT: Instead of downvoting, why not provide your view of how this is helping anything?