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Yeah, it’s almost as if a Christian-backed conservative political coalition dismantled the welfare state and stopped new services from being put in place or som
by claudeganon 7y ago
Yeah, it’s almost as if a Christian-backed conservative political coalition dismantled the welfare state and stopped new services from being put in place or something...
- dang 7y agoPlease don't take HN threads further into flamewar, regardless of how provocative another comment is. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Arguably the second blow does more damage to the container.
- ceejayoz 7y agoAs a moderator, is there a reason you're dinging the person making the second blow, but not the first?
- dang 7y agoA few reasons I suppose: the first comment was already dinged by the community; the second comment upped the ante considerably; and I was insufficiently aware of how inflammatory the topic is. By which I mean: I was well aware of how inflammatory the topic is, and even that was not enough. So I learned something in this thread.
- claudeganon 7y agodang was right to ding me. I was bullied as a kid by right-wing Christians espousing these kinds of talking points and projected that lingering resentment into this conversation. Apologies.
- dang 7y agoThank you for reacting so kindly.