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Not really. Can you think of any bigoted racist remark from 12 years ago that people still talk about? Stuff like that gets a brief spurt of outrage and then ge
by imgabe 7y ago
Not really. Can you think of any bigoted racist remark from 12 years ago that people still talk about? Stuff like that gets a brief spurt of outrage and then gets forgotten when the next outrage comes along.
- coldtea 7y ago>Can you think of any bigoted racist remark from 12 years ago that people still talk about? Why "still"? It's not like PG's 2008 article is the talk of the town today itself and people write new "hating" responses to it. This is just a repost on HN of an existing 12 year old response to the article. That said, yes, you can find write-ups and responses to remarks that actually were (or were/are considered as) bigoted/racist/etc being written many years after the fact as well, e.g. to various writers/politicians/pundits/etc anti-semitic remarks...