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> 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 t
by 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 agoPlease don't take HN threads further into ideological flamewar. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- ianleeclark 5y agoUnless 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 agoThe 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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