Comment by 4ggr0
3 days ago
> I was repeatedly told to target black women
not that i'm that surprised, but still shocking to read such things in 2025.
3 days ago
> I was repeatedly told to target black women
not that i'm that surprised, but still shocking to read such things in 2025.
I should have specified that I worked LP in the early 2000's but I doubt much has changed, since bigotry and racism do not seem to ever go away, especially when it's woven into the fabric of an institution.
Lasted a mere 6 months at that job before I decided I could no longer turn a blind eye, since by then it had become clear to me that the problem was not isolated to just a few LP associates.
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As an aside, this is not the first time I've seen a discussion (mine and your comments) about racism downvoted on HN. It makes me question the crowd I'm attempting to mingle with, here.
I get that the site is primarily concerned interesting tech-related things, but if anyone thinks that we can just avoid politics, social and economic issues that tend to surround those things once in awhile, they're delusional.
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equating racial profiling to specific bug reports, or what are you implying? let's just speak in plaintext instead of using simplistic analogies.
apologies if i deciphered your message wrongly.
In code, the manifestation of the buggy behavior is often quite some distance away from the underlying cause of the bug.
This is going nowhere in any case but maybe at very, very least use a whole programming language as an example. Like, if you use JavaScript you are going to find more bugs because someone made up some unscientific figure about ratio of bugs per computer language.