Hacker Newsnew | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submitlogin

Were you planning on using this site for anything other than spreading your racist, sexist, and xenophobic views? Because looking through your posts so far that about sums them up.

Throw in some homophobia and you can try for bigot of the year.



Your question isn't really a question, just a clumsy attempt to use shame to stifle open discussion, a technique that goes WAY back. Priests in the Middle Ages used it to keep the peasants in their place, although I imagine that they employed it more effectively than you do.

But here is a real question, one that actually rises to the level of being thought-provoking, just for you:

You have a six-year-old girl who has recently begun to complain of headaches, dizziness, and double-vision. Tests show that she has a tumor in an especially difficult-to-reach part of the brain. If left untreated, she will die, but any attempt to remove the rapidly growing mass has a significant chance of leaving her a vegetable. You must choose between two neurosurgeons, both of whom seemingly have very similar resumes, but one of whom is non-white/non-Asian, the other of whom is white/Asian. Do you choose the former to operate on your little girl, knowing that affirmative action policies may well have greased the skids for him all the way from college to medical school to his residency, or do you pick the latter, for whom no such programs exist?

If you pick the former, then your commitment to egalitarianism is on a par with Abraham's to Yaweh when he bound Jacob to the sacrificial altar.


[deleted]


Then I guess brain surgery isn't exactly brain surgery, if you know what I mean.




Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: