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From my view, race seems arbitrary. You could also split people into blue-eyed and brown-eyed or something. It still doesn't say anything about that person. Its just that many normal persons act like its a huge difference.


Many people would agree with you that race doesn't say that much about a person. However, it's quite naive to argue that racial issues are not a part of every day life. We live in a world built on racial divides and conflicts. It's obviously venerable to strive towards a non-racist society, but to do so one needs to understand the issues at hand.


I'm refusing to accept the split between "we" and "they" based on appearance or minor biological factors.

Show me a discrete situation where this results in bad decision making on my side, and I'll change my behavior.


Sure, but that emphatically does not mean abandoning principles of merit and equality and letting bullies and shakedown artists run your companies, as Github and too many others are doing.


> From my view, race seems arbitrary. You could also split people into blue-eyed and brown-eyed or something.

You could pick any societal construct or experience and say it doesn't matter to you. That doesn't mean it doesn't exist.

You could say money is just paper and ones and zeros in a database so you shouldn't have to use it but you are deluding yourself.


Its a pretend-game anyway and i'm well aware of it.

Money justifies itself because it allows trade and therefore specialization of individuals. Its required for the technological progress we already done.

Same goes with Companies, Math, or most Science things.

Race is used by people who want to discriminate (independent of direction) or seek justification by victim-hood (and everything derived). Both are harmful behaviors. I will not support that.




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