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> I had never before encountered this kind of visceral hatred This comment rang some bells for me. Have a friend from the Netherlands who was in undergrad wi

> I had never before encountered this kind of visceral hatred This comment rang some bells for me. Have a friend from the Netherlands who was in undergrad with me, and one day in confidence he told me one of the things he didn't understand most in America is how someone can harbor, and actively maintain, such a passionate hatred for someone they aren't intimately involved with. While this hatred is most definitely present in other first world nations, I can't avoid the fact that he is correct and far more pervasive in America. It doesn't make much sense to me.

clifanatic 10y ago
> I had never before encountered this kind of visceral hatred You should try being a white man on the internet.
- sctb 10y ago
  We've asked you too many times to please not inject inflammation without substance into the threads: it's indistinguishable from trolling, no matter how you meant it. We've banned this account, but we're happy to unban accounts that email us at hn@ycombinator.com and we believe will only post within the guidelines in the future.
  - clifanatic 10y ago
    Good job proving my point.
pfarnsworth 10y ago
I think this is simply just ignorance on your part and the part of your friend. People all around the world are full of hate. Most countries are still relatively homogenous. Any country where you see some mixing, you'll see the same hate. The Middle East is too easy of an example. Germany, France, etc have a lot of overt hate. The hate in Ireland between the Protestants and the Catholics was very real and they're the same race and culture.
- FilterSweep 10y ago
  Naivete is a possibility, but I haven't witnessed it as overt between people in my living in France (Riviera, not Paris) compared to what I've seen in America - However, as I am not a victimized group, this may be reinforcing naivete. Despite this naivete though, I would be wary of circumstance before making the declaration "mixing of any kind = hate"
  - pfarnsworth 10y ago
    You misread what I wrote, but I never said "mixing of any kind = hate". I said specifically "Any country where you see some mixing, you'll see the same hate." The hate you see in the US is not any more or any less than you will see in France, especially in Paris where it is completely overt against Muslims.

clifanatic 10y ago

> I had never before encountered this kind of visceral hatred You should try being a white man on the internet.

sctb 10y ago
We've asked you too many times to please not inject inflammation without substance into the threads: it's indistinguishable from trolling, no matter how you meant it. We've banned this account, but we're happy to unban accounts that email us at hn@ycombinator.com and we believe will only post within the guidelines in the future.
- clifanatic 10y ago
  Good job proving my point.

pfarnsworth 10y ago

I think this is simply just ignorance on your part and the part of your friend. People all around the world are full of hate. Most countries are still relatively homogenous. Any country where you see some mixing, you'll see the same hate. The Middle East is too easy of an example. Germany, France, etc have a lot of overt hate. The hate in Ireland between the Protestants and the Catholics was very real and they're the same race and culture.

FilterSweep 10y ago
Naivete is a possibility, but I haven't witnessed it as overt between people in my living in France (Riviera, not Paris) compared to what I've seen in America - However, as I am not a victimized group, this may be reinforcing naivete. Despite this naivete though, I would be wary of circumstance before making the declaration "mixing of any kind = hate"
- pfarnsworth 10y ago
  You misread what I wrote, but I never said "mixing of any kind = hate". I said specifically "Any country where you see some mixing, you'll see the same hate." The hate you see in the US is not any more or any less than you will see in France, especially in Paris where it is completely overt against Muslims.