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Thinking that HN would be better than <insert any bad behavior here> is a bit too hopeful of an assumption. Everyone is prone to bad / ignorant behavior. HN use
by cuddlecake 6y ago
Thinking that HN would be better than <insert any bad behavior here> is a bit too hopeful of an assumption. Everyone is prone to bad / ignorant behavior. HN users being no exception.
- CydeWeys 6y agoI disagree. Some communities are actually much better than others on a variety of issues. I mistakenly thought that this was an issue HN would have been better and more mature on too, but I'm learning I was wrong about that. But compare your average 8chan poster to your average HN poster and you'll see that for sure not all online communities are the same.
- cuddlecake 6y agoI don't even know how to argue on this. The average HN poster is definitely better than the average 8chan poster. But that does not mean all HN posters are free of being hateful/discriminating against certain groups of people. Be it by accident or willfully.
- CydeWeys 6y agoI for sure never thought that all HN posters were free of hate/discrimination, I just thought they were better than we're seeing here. But I was proven wrong in that.
- apta 6y agoExcept that being critical of homosexuality does not mean that someone is "homophobic" any more than someone critical of capitalism is "capitalism-phobic" or socialism as "socio-phobic" or whatever.
- cuddlecake 6y agoJust for dummy me, can you make a statement that is "critical of homosexuality" but not homophobic?
- apta 6y agoFor example, that homosexual men have much higher incidents of HIV because of their practices.
- cuddlecake 6y agoAnd what are the practices you are speaking of?
- apta 6y agoHomosexual sex obviously.
- CydeWeys 6y agoWhat about monogamous gay men then? There are plenty of them. You should be more supportive of them than a straight single person who has more than one sexual partner. But you aren't, for some reason. You're specifically railing against gay people rather than unsafe promiscuity. Interesting ...
- cuddlecake 6y agoSo you are critical of homosexual men having sex? Is that correct?
- dang 6y agoPlease don't do this here.