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Being a racist.. made you a racist. Hiding behind 'states rights' was just an excuse. So, no, being a racist bigot trying to justify the civil war by trotting

Being a racist.. made you a racist. Hiding behind 'states rights' was just an excuse. So, no, being a racist bigot trying to justify the civil war by trotting out "states rights" still gets you labeled as such. But yes, it's rich irony seeing the states raising these issues.

JumpCrisscross 9y ago
> it's rich irony seeing the states raising these issues Decentralised decision making is a large component of the American system’s resilience. At its worst, it’s a pressure release valve which shows us the negative effects of bad policy in a controlled setting (e.g. North Carolina’s bathroom bill). At its best, it promotes policy experimentation which can later scale, having been demonstrated to work, to the national stage (e.g. California’s clean air rules).
dang 9y ago
Please don't post ideological rants or personal attacks to Hacker News, regardless of how right you are or feel you are. Also, could you please take the following guideline to heart in the future? "Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize." Not doing so leads to the bottom of the barrel, and we're trying to do a bit better than that here. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html