On Monday, 9 May 2016 at 19:09:35 UTC, Joe Duarte wrote:
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You're not addressing the root cause.
America was founded on genocide, racism, sexism, and classism.
That should be the starting point of such research, but nobody
goes there because people, specially those who benefit from the
current system, are not serious about changing anything.
The idea that syntax has anything to do with women and minorities
being underrepresented in the industry, or that it's some kind of
deterrent, is the stupidest thing any one could come up with.
It's like saying that the reason why more blacks do not have
university degrees is because notebooks contain white sheets of
paper instead of gray sheets of paper, or that #2 pencils lack
blings. Idiot! Instead of saying shit like "PL syntax ...
disproportionately deters qualified women", did you consider the
possibility that maybe, just maybe, the current PL syntax
disproportionately encourages white men to behave in sexist and
racist manners? You see how retarded that sounds?
So, you are completely ignoring the cultural, historical, and
societal forces that have created the problems in the first
place. Basically, not only is your hypotheses sexist in its own
right, but you've completely shifted the blame of this injustice
onto something completely artificial that has nothing to do with
the problem.
