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Thank you for addressing that point. I appreciate the work you are doing on that front. However, you still haven't addressed the fact that if somebody speaks o

• dang 7y ago
  I'm not sure what you're asking exactly, but when it comes to a social issue like affirmative action, one which is large and complex and has people with good-faith views on many sides, yes, it can often be flamebait when someone makes reductionist comments using inflammatory words like "racism" to dismiss large aspects of the thing. People don't do that when they're looking for thoughtful conversation. They do it when they're in battle mode because they have strong feelings on the topic, usually hurt and angry feelings. Those feelings are important and based in real experience. But if they're allowed to drive expression in uncontained ways, all we get are sharp words fired like weapons between opposing sides. Those discussions have a lot of energy in them but do not have a lot of information in them, and that means they're not interesting in the sense that we use the term (see https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html), and that makes them off topic here.