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... alt-right? Would that not be pretty neo-nazi and white supremacy esque? This story hardly seems that. I do get tired of low-key culture war content, but we

by kodah 5y ago

... alt-right? Would that not be pretty neo-nazi and white supremacy esque? This story hardly seems that. I do get tired of low-key culture war content, but we're always surrounded by it. The left or the right trying to push their perspectives on the masses. It's gross, annoying, and probably bad in the long run but people love the left and the right like it's their favorite football team. They get buzzed on how the decisions the other has made disproportionately affect each other's groups. They love calling out the gotchas, embarrassing their opponents, and brewing on how short-sighted and stupid they are. It weirdly gives some people a sense of community, and they rally around it. It's like fusion in that way. It feeds itself.

ianleeclark 5y ago
> alt-right? Would that not be pretty neo-nazi and white supremacy esque? I don't really want to engage in the shit-slinging that this thread will inevitably turn into/has turned into, but: alt-right, by many accounts, is a response of neo-reactionary thought and neo-reactionary writers were a common part of online silicon-valley-adjacent communities. It's not just tiki torches. > I do get tired of low-key culture war content, but we're always surrounded by it. I would suggest you log off then because: > They love calling out the gotchas, embarrassing their opponents, and brewing on how short-sighted Android stupid they are. Not even you can control yourself. This is the culture war: people burning their Nikes on Twitter, people posting their RBJ commemorative mugs on Insta, and you falling into the vortex yourself to kvetch about both sides--no doubt someone will show up to say how their _not like those other people_. None of us can help ourselves. We love to post
- dang 5y ago
  Please don't take HN threads further into ideological flamewar. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
  - ianleeclark 5y ago
    Unless you were talking about anything after my first paragraph, I'm literally just quoting wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Enlightenment#Relation_to_the_alt-right https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Enlightenment#Relation_to...
    - dang 5y ago
      The comment was obviously fodder for ideological battle, regardless of what it was quoting from Wikipedia. Can you please not post like that? It has destructive effects on the threads: it evokes worse from others, makes discussion quality significantly lower, takes threads into the direction of the same few generic black hole topics over and over again, has nothing to offer curiosity (which is supposed to be the guiding value of this site), and so on. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit more to heart, we'd be grateful.
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dang 5y ago
Please don't take HN threads further into ideological flamewar. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

by kodah 5y ago

ianleeclark 5y ago

> alt-right? Would that not be pretty neo-nazi and white supremacy esque? I don't really want to engage in the shit-slinging that this thread will inevitably turn into/has turned into, but: alt-right, by many accounts, is a response of neo-reactionary thought and neo-reactionary writers were a common part of online silicon-valley-adjacent communities. It's not just tiki torches. > I do get tired of low-key culture war content, but we're always surrounded by it. I would suggest you log off then because: > They love calling out the gotchas, embarrassing their opponents, and brewing on how short-sighted Android stupid they are. Not even you can control yourself. This is the culture war: people burning their Nikes on Twitter, people posting their RBJ commemorative mugs on Insta, and you falling into the vortex yourself to kvetch about both sides--no doubt someone will show up to say how their _not like those other people_. None of us can help ourselves. We love to post

dang 5y ago
Please don't take HN threads further into ideological flamewar. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- ianleeclark 5y ago
  Unless you were talking about anything after my first paragraph, I'm literally just quoting wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Enlightenment#Relation_to_the_alt-right https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Enlightenment#Relation_to...
  - dang 5y ago
    The comment was obviously fodder for ideological battle, regardless of what it was quoting from Wikipedia. Can you please not post like that? It has destructive effects on the threads: it evokes worse from others, makes discussion quality significantly lower, takes threads into the direction of the same few generic black hole topics over and over again, has nothing to offer curiosity (which is supposed to be the guiding value of this site), and so on. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit more to heart, we'd be grateful.
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dang 5y ago

Please don't take HN threads further into ideological flamewar. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html