yetanother1980

In this context a fund for poor founders would be a good start.

I will always call out discrimination in any context even by well meaning people. I do hope that arguing against racism and sexism is acceptable on this forum.

I missed nothing.

Racism is inherently wrong. By being racist you are empirically making the world a worse place.

By being racist you are increasing the divide.

Racism is defined as discrimination based on race or ethnicity.

Sexism is defined as discrimination based on gender or biological sex.

Both are well defined terms in English both in dictionaries and general usage. Stop trying to play games with words and start explaining why you think racism and sexism are ok.

> As a white male

If these characteristics are not important to your argument why raise them.

It normalises racism and sexism. If it is OK to discriminate in one way on racial or gender grounds why not another?

Let's get one thing clear. Just because you look like other people you don't get to speak for them. You don't represent all white males any more than the Grand Wizard of the KKK does. Your skin colour or gender have no bearing on this - and should have no bearing on your opinion on this.

I detest racism and sexism even when done by well meaning people. If this is a character flaw then I want more flaws.

I am glad I got a chance to let you know that not everyone agrees with bigotry.

It is always racist and sexist to discriminate on racial/ethnic or gender grounds.

You are the one using a very strange and tortured definition. Neither racism nor sexism involve power structures they both involve discrimination on racial/ethnic/imagined or gender grounds. This is well established English language stop trying to redefine it.

I think that racists and sexists like those behind this fund have gone too long without being told that their bigotry is unacceptable. I think that in the main they want to do the right thing. They need to be told explicitly that racism and sexism are never ok. I hope that if decent people keep saying this and acting on this all racism and sexism can one day be consigned to history.

This is expressly racist and sexist.

Try mbasic.facebook.com

I don't know about the US but in the UK there has just been a major and sadly underreported scandal with police failing to disclose evidence to defence solicitors.