Diversity? That's for racists.

I think it's fascinating how people can claim that a group is homogeneous from skin color and genitalia alone. What about diversity of background, view point, education, job experience, etc?<p>I wonder how they choose books to read..

Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't the word racist meant someone who classifies people based on race?<p>That racist could be using their classification in a 'positive' or 'negative' way depending on your viewpoint or desires.<p>Personally, I'd rather classify people based on decency, skills, and other material differentiators and leave both the 'positive' and 'negative' racists to the dustbin of history.

I'm quite glad to see that the "uh guys, you might be privileged" meme is attracting enough attention and mindshare to draw this sort of opposition. It shows that the efforts of the parties that have been pushing it are successful at reaching the people they need to reach, and more importantly, working to change the shared perception of standards in various communities. You'll note that he speaks as a minority viewpoint trying to claim that the majority is crazy, not like a person in line with the prevailing views of the community who's quieting a lone crazy voice.

This Andy Rutledge fella seems like just the type that has an overly simplified, reductionist point of view, which is akin to a child's mind. "Capitalist idealists" are too often blind to the reality of the world, seeing privilege as some made up idea because they don't understand their own.

This is kind of disappointing that rather than looking at ourselves as part of a society and many communities, there is passive aggressive, smarmy, drivel like <a href="http://conferencequotas.com/" rel="nofollow">http://conferencequotas.com/</a>.<p>I'd dare this fella to have a conversation with Eric Ries or Vivek Wadhwa and others. He'd get dummied into the next century, if this isn't a poorly thought out clumsy attempt at caricature/satire/parody.

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People like this are obviously blind to the sort of misogyny and racism that still permeates human culture, especially U.S. culture, today, and don't realize what considering the people affected by these social diseases can do. When you consider the marginalized, the marginalized will get a voice, and this demonstrates that people besides white cissexual men can have a place in the community (in this case tech communities).<p>But then again, we're talking about adults who still use 4chanisms like "o hai!" (see: the footer of conferencequotes.com), so it's possibly just a matter of waiting for these people to grow old and get out of the way of more progressive-minded individuals who are building communities that can afford to value sensitivity and skepticism, without egos and masculinity complexes keeping love and rationality at bay.

I wanted to not post, but this was too much greatness: <a href="https://twitter.com/andyrutledge/status/288048242590101504" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/andyrutledge/status/288048242590101504</a><p>This is beyond great too, stick around for the quiz: <a href="http://capitalismis.com/" rel="nofollow">http://capitalismis.com/</a>