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Can you elaborate? Surely you're not complaining about historical references, use of languages other than English, or indirect comparisons based on obviously j
by pklausler 9y ago
Can you elaborate? Surely you're not complaining about historical references, use of languages other than English, or indirect comparisons based on obviously jocular namespace collisions. Would you have complained if I had written "HR behaves in many ways like a secret police force"? Would you have chided me if I had referenced the Stasi instead of the Gestapo? Genuinely curious.
- dang 9y agoSnark and gratuitous Nazi references are bad here. Beyond that, there's something degrading about comparing corporate HR to the Gestapo no matter how much critique corporate HR deserves. When you blithely escalate to historical atrocities, you're doing two things to the discussion: (1) dramatically diluting it and (2) making it explosive. Internet forums can't withstand that kind of thing for long, so please don't post like that to HN.