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It's really disappointing to see such reactionary comments on HN. Obviously Facebook ought to pay more attention to anti-Black racism: this has historically bee

It's really disappointing to see such reactionary comments on HN. Obviously Facebook ought to pay more attention to anti-Black racism: this has historically been where the problem is, and so it's where the bulk of the effort should go.

sonotathrowaway 6y ago
Tangential (and not to attack you specifically), but I don’t understand the basis by which tech, HN included, judges itself to be more liberal and less reactionary than other industries. There’s just as many racists in tech as the rest of American society, with a special bend towards libertarian/scientific realism/racism that is much more pronounced than in other segments of America than I’ve seen. It’s traditionally been one of the most unwelcoming places for minorities (Hi Coinbase!), and has pioneered new workplace and have championed euphemisms like “culture fit” to exclude people who don’t look like them (not limited to black people).
lovegoblin 6y ago
> It's really disappointing to see such reactionary comments on HN. Disappointing, yes. Surprising? No.
adingus 6y ago
What efforts? There is no reason to weigh things differently. Hate speech is removed via an algorithm, it costs them nothing to weigh hate speech equally... Actually it's probably easier to design an algorithm where everything has the same weight.
rabite 6y ago
This is not the case. The vast majority of interracial violence is African on European. People will also say "what about slavery" being completely ignorant of history, which includes millions of White Europeans being kidnapped and raped and worked to death in Africa by the Barbary slave trade. There are no White descendants of the White slaves that were brought to Africa -- largely because it was the policy of many of these places to kill even the children that were borne of rape to these slaves. We need a principled stand against racially incendiary rhetoric or none at all. Either the basis needs to be the First Amendment, in which none of it should be policed, or it needs to be evenly applied regardless of race, and people who post hate about Whites need to be banned from social media instead of verified and glorified.

sonotathrowaway 6y ago

Tangential (and not to attack you specifically), but I don’t understand the basis by which tech, HN included, judges itself to be more liberal and less reactionary than other industries. There’s just as many racists in tech as the rest of American society, with a special bend towards libertarian/scientific realism/racism that is much more pronounced than in other segments of America than I’ve seen. It’s traditionally been one of the most unwelcoming places for minorities (Hi Coinbase!), and has pioneered new workplace and have championed euphemisms like “culture fit” to exclude people who don’t look like them (not limited to black people).

lovegoblin 6y ago

> It's really disappointing to see such reactionary comments on HN. Disappointing, yes. Surprising? No.

adingus 6y ago

What efforts? There is no reason to weigh things differently. Hate speech is removed via an algorithm, it costs them nothing to weigh hate speech equally... Actually it's probably easier to design an algorithm where everything has the same weight.

rabite 6y ago

This is not the case. The vast majority of interracial violence is African on European. People will also say "what about slavery" being completely ignorant of history, which includes millions of White Europeans being kidnapped and raped and worked to death in Africa by the Barbary slave trade. There are no White descendants of the White slaves that were brought to Africa -- largely because it was the policy of many of these places to kill even the children that were borne of rape to these slaves. We need a principled stand against racially incendiary rhetoric or none at all. Either the basis needs to be the First Amendment, in which none of it should be policed, or it needs to be evenly applied regardless of race, and people who post hate about Whites need to be banned from social media instead of verified and glorified.