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Why should white supremacy and neo nazism be a protected class in the same vein as ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation?

axaxs 6y ago
Corporations with the ability to freely serve, or fire, people for wrongthink has the inevitable outcome of people only parroting what their employer tells them to. Support our cause or be expelled. It's happening slowly, but expect it to ramp up in coming years. Is that a world you want to live in? All in the name of those damn nazis again.
Vomzor 6y ago
Because the definition of nazi or white supremacist widens every day. What is acceptable today is racist next week.
- courtf 6y ago
  I'd be more than willing to overlook their degeneracy if they would stop trying to shove their lifestyle down our throats.
- dang 6y ago
  It looks like you've been using HN primarily for political battle, or at least getting uncomfortably close to it. That's not allowed here—it destroys the curious conversation that this site is supposed to exist for. When accounts cross that line (see https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comment&storyText=false&prefix=false&page=0&query=primarily%20test%20by:dang https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme... for more explanation), that's when we start banning them, regardless of which politics or ideology they're banning for. I'm not going to ban you right now because as of a few months ago (say, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23644508 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23644508 and further back) your account mostly wasn't abusing HN this badly though you were still doing it (e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23609087 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23609087 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23495773 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23495773). Please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and go back to using the site for its intended purpose, and please don't post any more flamebait.
  - Vomzor 6y ago
    Except the Apple comment I don't think I've been making political comments in threads where the topic wasn't political to start with. And this one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23495773 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23495773 The OP literally asks for an unpopular opinion... You can't fault me for answering? But you are right about me being too focused on political comments lately. I wasn't aware I was doing that. Thanks for your work on HN.

axaxs 6y ago

Corporations with the ability to freely serve, or fire, people for wrongthink has the inevitable outcome of people only parroting what their employer tells them to. Support our cause or be expelled. It's happening slowly, but expect it to ramp up in coming years. Is that a world you want to live in? All in the name of those damn nazis again.

Vomzor 6y ago

Because the definition of nazi or white supremacist widens every day. What is acceptable today is racist next week.

courtf 6y ago
I'd be more than willing to overlook their degeneracy if they would stop trying to shove their lifestyle down our throats.
dang 6y ago
It looks like you've been using HN primarily for political battle, or at least getting uncomfortably close to it. That's not allowed here—it destroys the curious conversation that this site is supposed to exist for. When accounts cross that line (see https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comment&storyText=false&prefix=false&page=0&query=primarily%20test%20by:dang https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme... for more explanation), that's when we start banning them, regardless of which politics or ideology they're banning for. I'm not going to ban you right now because as of a few months ago (say, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23644508 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23644508 and further back) your account mostly wasn't abusing HN this badly though you were still doing it (e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23609087 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23609087 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23495773 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23495773). Please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and go back to using the site for its intended purpose, and please don't post any more flamebait.
- Vomzor 6y ago
  Except the Apple comment I don't think I've been making political comments in threads where the topic wasn't political to start with. And this one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23495773 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23495773 The OP literally asks for an unpopular opinion... You can't fault me for answering? But you are right about me being too focused on political comments lately. I wasn't aware I was doing that. Thanks for your work on HN.