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You'd think people would be tired of being unnecessarily outraged by everything by now?
by tayo42 6y ago
You'd think people would be tired of being unnecessarily outraged by everything by now?
- amznthrwaway 6y agoRepublicans and other right-wing racists will never stop being outraged, and they will never stop mistaking dumb slippery slope logical fallacies for good arguments. There’s nothing you can do except deplatform them; but HN is explicitly designed as a safe space for far right wing bigots; so this is guaranteed to be a bad discussion. Daniel Gackle has devoted much of his adult life to ensuring that extremists and racists feel safe here in HN; and that minorities do not. He likes to pretend this isn’t the case, but he only talks to very specific people for feedback, ensuring that he can always pretend that people like me are wrong. He’s a closed-minded, bigot-supporting pile of shit who spends every day of his life making the world actively worse for minorities.
- tired-dev 6y agoYou mean like being outraged that people are outraged?
- tclancy 6y agoLook at the pictures in the relevant books and ask yourself if you would want a Black child to see themselves in those images. Ask yourself if Dr Seuss would. No one is outraged, the world just moves on.
- 1123581321 6y agoIf there is no outrage, then you wouldn’t mind if those books continue to be bought and read to children and stocked in libraries. A reasonable outward rhetorical demeanor is not what is in question.
- hannasanarion 6y agoIdk, you're the one deciding to be outraged by an authors children following through on a decision they made last year to stop printing a selection of their father's work. Are you tired of it yet?
- tayo42 6y agoAre you all misinterpreting my comment? Yes I think it's silly people are getting outraged over them deciding to stop printing the books. Seems like people can't stop being outraged about pointless issues. This is on par with Starbucks Christmas cups drama