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This is really upsetting: it is exactly what happened elsewhere like 80 years ago: laws against people just because of their birth conditions. Edit: and people
by pfortuny 7y ago
This is really upsetting: it is exactly what happened elsewhere like 80 years ago: laws against people just because of their birth conditions.
Edit: and people abiding by them because “it is the law”...
- bhouston 7y agoThis is wrong what is going on and we should talk about it, but please stay away from Godwin'ing this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_law
- pfortuny 7y agoOh no: I am not staying away from REALITY. This is not a metaphor, this is just plain facts: they are being treated like that exactly because they share a trait at birth. In this case being Iranian. In the past, being Jew. This is exactly where reality meets history. And not as a metaphor.
- dang 7y agoPlease don't up the flamewar ante like this. It doesn't help—it just destroys the discussion, at which point no information is being exchanged and no minds or hearts will ever change. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- FussyZeus 7y agoWhen discussing matters of states acting very much in the same vein as Nazi Germany, of course the Reich is going to come up. How can it not? Fuck Godwin's law. If people are acting like Nazis, you call them fucking Nazis. And then you punch them. That's how we make sure those kinds of atrocities never occur again.
- dang 7y agoPlease don't take HN threads further into ideological battle, regardless of how right you are or feel you are. It's not what this site is for—and it destroys what it is for. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html