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Vox Day...is a racist...Taki is a well-known antisemite. This article is fucking stupid. Why do I keep seeing articles from racist websites on Hacker News? No

by miked 16y ago

Vox Day...is a racist...Taki is a well-known antisemite. This article is fucking stupid. Why do I keep seeing articles from racist websites on Hacker News? Now that's insightful thinking! Evidence? Since it's so well-known, I assume it won't be hard to supply. And why should we even care? If they are racist, or like listening to Vanilla Ice, or something else sick, that's their problem. Our problem (as citizen's of OECD countries) is that the regulatory welfare states we live in -- all of them -- are rapidly going bankrupt (hello Greece, Spain, Portugal, Britain, Japan, Italy, and soon the US). Even worse, the young people who are going to bear the brunt of this (which would include most HN readers) seem largely unaware of it. That is why this article is important. So, would you explain how your ad hominem argument refutes what he is saying? Actually, it's kind of a second-order ad hominem, since you aren't even accusing the author of racism. There's still time though!

dreyfiz 16y ago
My refutation of what he's saying is that it's self-evidently stupid political crap, and partisanship is brain damage. I don't come here for partisan politics. The article's form is a bunch of non-sequitur bullet points weaved together to try to paint a gloomy picture. My complaint about seeing racist websites on Hacker News is a completely independent clause. I even gave it its very own sentence. I have two complaints here, one is about the stupidity, the other is about seeing racist commentators being normalized on Hacker News. Look, this isn't a courtroom, and I'm not your research assistant. The fact that Taki and Vox Day are racists is well-known to anyone who knows anything about either of them. If you don't believe me then I suggest you Google and do some reading. I'd link to lmgtfy, but I don't want to be insulting. Taki characterizes himself as an anti-semite. Vox Day has an extensive written record of racist writings.

by miked 16y ago

dreyfiz 16y ago

My refutation of what he's saying is that it's self-evidently stupid political crap, and partisanship is brain damage. I don't come here for partisan politics. The article's form is a bunch of non-sequitur bullet points weaved together to try to paint a gloomy picture. My complaint about seeing racist websites on Hacker News is a completely independent clause. I even gave it its very own sentence. I have two complaints here, one is about the stupidity, the other is about seeing racist commentators being normalized on Hacker News. Look, this isn't a courtroom, and I'm not your research assistant. The fact that Taki and Vox Day are racists is well-known to anyone who knows anything about either of them. If you don't believe me then I suggest you Google and do some reading. I'd link to lmgtfy, but I don't want to be insulting. Taki characterizes himself as an anti-semite. Vox Day has an extensive written record of racist writings.