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The amount of pro-genocide comments here, on Reddit, etc. makes me lose my faith in humanity. Decades down the line, people will wonder how such nominally reaso

The amount of pro-genocide comments here, on Reddit, etc. makes me lose my faith in humanity. Decades down the line, people will wonder how such nominally reasonable and interconnected people could develop such hateful, vile opinions.

abhishivsaxena 9y ago
Genocide is very strong term, the fact that you use it in such a light way for a law and order situation seems to suggest something else. > Generally speaking, genocide does not necessarily mean the immediate destruction of a nation, except when accomplished by mass killings of all members of a nation. It is intended rather to signify a coordinated plan of different actions aiming at the destruction of essential foundations of the life of national groups, with the aim of annihilating the groups themselves [1] Worst you can call is mass expulsion from Rakhine. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocide https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocide
- dang 9y ago
  Since you seem to be using HN primarily to fight national/racial/political causes, we've banned this account. If you want to commit to following the rules at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html in the future, you're welcome to email us at hn@ycombinator.com.
aaron695 9y ago
Currently there are only 18 comments. So how you can say this early thread represents HN is pretty disgenious.
- archagon 9y ago
  When participating in online discussions, do you not get a sense of what opinions are OK to express even before the conversation gets going? The current zeitgeist in many public forums is very “fuck Muslims at all costs”, and even if those comments do eventually get downvoted, people still feel safe to post them over and over again. In some forums, they even float to the top with frightening regularity; see /r/news et al. In other words, I already knew what I would be seeing as soon as I stepped into this thread. Even 1% of a population speaking out in favor of genocide is a fucking travesty.
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abhishivsaxena 9y ago

Genocide is very strong term, the fact that you use it in such a light way for a law and order situation seems to suggest something else. > Generally speaking, genocide does not necessarily mean the immediate destruction of a nation, except when accomplished by mass killings of all members of a nation. It is intended rather to signify a coordinated plan of different actions aiming at the destruction of essential foundations of the life of national groups, with the aim of annihilating the groups themselves [1] Worst you can call is mass expulsion from Rakhine. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocide https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocide

dang 9y ago
Since you seem to be using HN primarily to fight national/racial/political causes, we've banned this account. If you want to commit to following the rules at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html in the future, you're welcome to email us at hn@ycombinator.com.

aaron695 9y ago

Currently there are only 18 comments. So how you can say this early thread represents HN is pretty disgenious.

archagon 9y ago
When participating in online discussions, do you not get a sense of what opinions are OK to express even before the conversation gets going? The current zeitgeist in many public forums is very “fuck Muslims at all costs”, and even if those comments do eventually get downvoted, people still feel safe to post them over and over again. In some forums, they even float to the top with frightening regularity; see /r/news et al. In other words, I already knew what I would be seeing as soon as I stepped into this thread. Even 1% of a population speaking out in favor of genocide is a fucking travesty.

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