![]() ![]() ![]() He simply declines to extend to the Asian man who is seated next to him in class the same degree of friendliness and regard that he would extend to a white man. He is admitting to an assumption that results in no act of visible hostility or hatred. There’s no term that quite captures what Swartz is describing here. I begin to wonder how many people I’ve skipped over. Had he been white, there is no question I would have started talking to him about stuff, but instead I brushed him off. My Asian neighbor tried to make conversation with me and even though he had no accent, because of his face I imagined that he did. “However much I hate prejudice at a conscious level, I am nonetheless extremely prejudiced,” he wrote:Īt my CS class, my eyes just passed over the large number of foreign and Asian students to land on mostly white ones (black ones too, occasionally). In September of that year, Swartz published a short post confessing to something that few take the time to consider. Swartz was devoted to an ethic of candid introspection, which he had practiced even at the age of seventeen, on a blog he kept as a freshman at Stanford University, in 2004. He is at work on his first book.Ī few years back, I wrote an article about Aaron Swartz, a hacker and activist who killed himself while under indictment for the unauthorized downloading of millions of academic-journal articles from an online archive. ![]() Yang has written for New York magazine, the New York Times, and n+1. ![]()
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