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Wow, this is really reminiscent of the Cultural Revolution. These retaliatory attitudes towards 'white' people are hostile and racist and do not work towards b

Wow, this is really reminiscent of the Cultural Revolution. These retaliatory attitudes towards 'white' people are hostile and racist and do not work towards building an inclusive society. Edit: Why was this flagged?

dba7dba 9y ago
Nah, it will never happen again. Not here. That swas the sentiment of many before WW2 broke out. Holocaust happened. Cultural Revolution took off.
adekok 9y ago
When your enemies are by definition bad, and your side is by definition good, you can do anything. Any evil is excusable, because it's done by "good" people against the "bad" people. The people advocating this idiocy are unaware of history. The end result of their advocacy is genocide. They will end up being accused of the things they oppose, by people even more radical than themselves. For me, all of the despotic ideologies are the same. This kind of political correctness, communism, anti-semitism, etc. They all want "good" people to destroy the "bad" people. Reality be damned. Consequences be damned. Humanity be damned.
cupscale 9y ago
I guess. As someone who grew up near Evergreen (and knew a few classmates who attended), Evergreen's always kinda been this way. At least for the last 20+ years. I (and many others I grew up with) think of Evergreen in the same way I think of avant garde fashion: It's sometimes a precursor of trends to come, but those trends are heavily watered-down and altered versions of the original. I don't worry about a cultural revolution stemming from Evergreen any more than I worry about a nazi uprising stemming from 4chan. EDIT: That is to say, both can be influential in their own way but in both cases their particular viewpoints get really watered-down by the time it becomes "mainstream" in any way.
quuquuquu 9y ago
It was flagged because x% of users on this site refuse to have difficult and nuanced conversations about racism and censorship. They ruin it for the rest of us.
- vixen99 9y ago
  What a shame given that HN-ers are perfectly capable of seeing the holes in lousy arguments or questioning dodgy 'facts' if they are.
- dang 9y ago
  HN has many major conversations about these issues. It's just never enough for those who want them, and always too much for those who don't.
zenkat 9y ago
Why flagged? Read the submission guidelines: "Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Ideological or political battle or talking points. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- meri_dian 9y ago
  "unless they're some interesting new phenomenon". This article is that.
  - dang 9y ago
    It's probably neither interesting enough nor new enough to satisfy the community as a whole.

dba7dba 9y ago

Nah, it will never happen again. Not here. That swas the sentiment of many before WW2 broke out. Holocaust happened. Cultural Revolution took off.

adekok 9y ago

When your enemies are by definition bad, and your side is by definition good, you can do anything. Any evil is excusable, because it's done by "good" people against the "bad" people. The people advocating this idiocy are unaware of history. The end result of their advocacy is genocide. They will end up being accused of the things they oppose, by people even more radical than themselves. For me, all of the despotic ideologies are the same. This kind of political correctness, communism, anti-semitism, etc. They all want "good" people to destroy the "bad" people. Reality be damned. Consequences be damned. Humanity be damned.

cupscale 9y ago

I guess. As someone who grew up near Evergreen (and knew a few classmates who attended), Evergreen's always kinda been this way. At least for the last 20+ years. I (and many others I grew up with) think of Evergreen in the same way I think of avant garde fashion: It's sometimes a precursor of trends to come, but those trends are heavily watered-down and altered versions of the original. I don't worry about a cultural revolution stemming from Evergreen any more than I worry about a nazi uprising stemming from 4chan. EDIT: That is to say, both can be influential in their own way but in both cases their particular viewpoints get really watered-down by the time it becomes "mainstream" in any way.

quuquuquu 9y ago

It was flagged because x% of users on this site refuse to have difficult and nuanced conversations about racism and censorship. They ruin it for the rest of us.

vixen99 9y ago
What a shame given that HN-ers are perfectly capable of seeing the holes in lousy arguments or questioning dodgy 'facts' if they are.
dang 9y ago
HN has many major conversations about these issues. It's just never enough for those who want them, and always too much for those who don't.

zenkat 9y ago

Why flagged? Read the submission guidelines: "Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Ideological or political battle or talking points. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

meri_dian 9y ago
"unless they're some interesting new phenomenon". This article is that.
- dang 9y ago
  It's probably neither interesting enough nor new enough to satisfy the community as a whole.