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Here's hoping that HN can buck Law 619 of the Internet: the comment section of all articles which mention data that shows social, economic, or institutional dis
by bsanr 7y ago
Here's hoping that HN can buck Law 619 of the Internet: the comment section of all articles which mention data that shows social, economic, or institutional disparities which negatively effect black people will largely be concerned not with the implications of that information, but with questioning the authenticity or reliability of that information; or else, simply with thinly-veiled racism.
I'll keep a running list of such comments until I get tired of it.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21043809 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21043809
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21042933 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21042933
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21042076 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21042076
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21043252 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21043252
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21044206 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21044206
- GhettoMaestro 7y agoYou must be awesome to talk with at parties.
- bsanr 7y agoAm I wrong, or just annoying?
- GhettoMaestro 7y agoI personally think you are annoying and hyper-sensitive. I do not have enough information to say if you are definitively wrong. But it wouldn't shock me.
- bsanr 7y agoI'll care what you think of me when you care to get "enough information" to say anything of worth.
- mieseratte 7y agoWhy do you feel so compelled to make a list... and why didn’t I land on it?
- rongenre 7y agoI never see it as thinly-veiled. Just-world fallacy is pervasive.
- projektfu 7y agoUsually people just need an eye-opener to jump out of the just world fallacy. But some people really cling to it, the way they cling to their original viewpoint in every argument. The person could have experienced the progression of a manager through their company who got started there because he was friends with so and so or went to the same prep school, and because of his personality traits continues to get promoted even though his record is subpar. They may have even complained about it in another thread. Yet, when it comes to race, they assume that this perfect meritocracy is open to everyone.
- handlegoeshere 7y agoI don't know why people's expectations of this place are so high. Remember this was the community that defended Damore, Stallman, Ito, and even some were speaking positively about Epstein.