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Likewise, Hacker News: where anonymous cowards call others anonymous cowards and make baseless accusations of racism Apologies for the meta-discussion, but th

Likewise, Hacker News: where anonymous cowards call others anonymous cowards and make baseless accusations of racism Apologies for the meta-discussion, but this sort of comment is unbecoming of hacker news. Instead of calling anonymous commenters names, we should discuss their ideas.

jerrylives 9y ago
>baseless accusation He literally says this is "affirmative action" in regards to an African nation and calls the competency of a space program into question for no reason. That's not baseless, it's quite blatant really. I don't want to discuss the ideas of morons. There needs to be a bar set if you want to have reasonable, meaningful conversations. Not every opinion or thought is worthy of discourse and some are actively harmful. I see more and more racist and otherwise trollish comments on HN everyday and frankly I'm sick of it.
- castis 9y ago
  That post was downvoted and flagged, no need to further indulge that sort of thing either way.
- cderwin 9y ago
  The commenter is quite clear that he or she is calling into question the competency of the Ghanaian space program because "its not even a new design, they literally just used the cubesat platform and launched it from United States." Similarly, the connection between calling this article the space-race equivalent of "affirmative action" and the alleged racism of the author of the comment is unclear. If you actually believe the author of the comment is a racist, you should make your case. The author's racism doesn't seem "blatant" to me, and presumably wouldn't to most of the hn community.
  - forapurpose 9y ago
    > presumably wouldn't to most of the hn community I wouldn't try to speak for the rest of the community. Using the term "affirmative action" in regard to an African nation has clear implications.
    - cderwin 9y ago
      Namely that people of color benefit from it; that itself does not have racist implications. You are of course correct that I should not have presumed the community agrees with me -- my apologies for making that assumption.

jerrylives 9y ago

>baseless accusation He literally says this is "affirmative action" in regards to an African nation and calls the competency of a space program into question for no reason. That's not baseless, it's quite blatant really. I don't want to discuss the ideas of morons. There needs to be a bar set if you want to have reasonable, meaningful conversations. Not every opinion or thought is worthy of discourse and some are actively harmful. I see more and more racist and otherwise trollish comments on HN everyday and frankly I'm sick of it.

castis 9y ago
That post was downvoted and flagged, no need to further indulge that sort of thing either way.
cderwin 9y ago
The commenter is quite clear that he or she is calling into question the competency of the Ghanaian space program because "its not even a new design, they literally just used the cubesat platform and launched it from United States." Similarly, the connection between calling this article the space-race equivalent of "affirmative action" and the alleged racism of the author of the comment is unclear. If you actually believe the author of the comment is a racist, you should make your case. The author's racism doesn't seem "blatant" to me, and presumably wouldn't to most of the hn community.
- forapurpose 9y ago
  > presumably wouldn't to most of the hn community I wouldn't try to speak for the rest of the community. Using the term "affirmative action" in regard to an African nation has clear implications.
  - cderwin 9y ago
    Namely that people of color benefit from it; that itself does not have racist implications. You are of course correct that I should not have presumed the community agrees with me -- my apologies for making that assumption.