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I didn't bring it as ideological flamewar material but as real psychosocial phenomenon that has truly similar dynamics to what was in discussion.

• dang 8y ago
  Ok, but if you toss lit matches at a petrol station, it doesn't much matter what your reasoning was. The important thing is the effect.
  • sebastianconcpt 8y ago
    What you are suggesting is that I have to behave politically correct, a form of effective self-censorship, because of the outcome while completely ignoring intellectual curiosity. This is interesting because in the HN guildelines you cited, it specifically says: "Please don't use Hacker News primarily for political or ideological battle. This destroys intellectual curiosity, and we ban accounts that do it." So how is it that this isn't a double standard?
    • dang 8y ago
      Of course I'm not suggesting that. If you dive into "SJW" and "the communist movement" and whatnot, you're doing ideological battle, and that's what we don't want here—not because we could care less about political correctness, but because it's predictable and tedious. And it consistently leads to worse. There's no intellectual curiosity in that, so please don't post any more of it here.