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I enjoy seeing these political threads here on HN. It's good for this place to finally have a look in the mirror and see what's there.
by martythemaniak 6y ago
I enjoy seeing these political threads here on HN. It's good for this place to finally have a look in the mirror and see what's there.
- pstuart 6y agoIt's disheartening to see so much racism among the community here.
- meheleventyone 6y agoHopefully its more single issue trolls. They're new, low karma accounts and HN is going to be a target for proletarization.
- pstuart 6y agoUnfortunately not. Racism is a disease that affects all walks of life.
- insickness 6y agoIt's disheartening to hear people refer to anything and everything as 'racism' to the point it's lost all meaning.
- pstuart 6y agoFraming BLM as being a source of violence is racist AF. I was called a racist on HN because I said "white people suck" in the context of White Nationalism. If one doesn't think that systemic racism is real or a problem, then that individual is either ignorant or racist.
- jaywalk 6y ago"white people suck" is a cut and dried racist comment, regardless of context.
- pstuart 6y agoHmm, so being a white person myself and criticizing other white people for using their whiteness as proof of their so-called superiority is racist? I don't think so, and your opinion doesn't change things.
- DuskStar 6y agoPersonally, I think "X people are Y characteristic" is racist whether X is Black, White, Asian, Jewish, American Indian or anything else, and whether Y is good or bad. The definition should be symmetric.
- pstuart 6y agoLet me try again: I'm calling out practitioners of racism, that those people suck. Would you care to disagree? That is the context and the intent, so if you're interpreting it as hate for all white people then you're sadly mistaken.
- DuskStar 6y agoWell, you were replying to this comment: > "white people suck" is a cut and dried racist comment, regardless of context. With something that seemed like "no, I don't think 'white people suck' is racist". Bashing white supremacists is great! But bashing an entire race isn't.