I don't know about the "Now you Asians" line but the diversity exercise is so bloody obvious in what it's aiming to achieve that it blows my mind any other HN commenters aren't able to figure it out.
It is a "see how it feels to be discriminated against" exercise. You can argue the outcomes, but you certainly can't argue the intentions. It's clearly aimed at trying to make people understand what it's like to be discriminated against.
About the best you can do for a well-intentioned person doing a thing like that is tell them it's not helping.
It is a "see how it feels to be discriminated against" exercise. You can argue the outcomes, but you certainly can't argue the intentions. It's clearly aimed at trying to make people understand what it's like to be discriminated against.
About the best you can do for a well-intentioned person doing a thing like that is tell them it's not helping.