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If you get vaccinated is a choice heavily correlated to skin color, at least in my neck of the woods. Less than 40% of black men are vaccinated here, and conspi
by uxp100 5y ago
If you get vaccinated is a choice heavily correlated to skin color, at least in my neck of the woods. Less than 40% of black men are vaccinated here, and conspiracies that covid-19 was created by Israel so that they could create the vaccine so that they could sterilize black men are aired on the radio. (There was an anti vax program and a pro vax program, but like, what could some moderate pastor say to respond to that? I don’t think that’s true?)
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- bluecalm 5y agoJust because more black men around there are dumb doesn't mean it's racist policy to stigmatize dumb choices.
- dang 5y agoPlease review the site guidelines and don't post flamebait to HN. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- bluecalm 5y agoI am sorry if you interpreted it as a flamebait. I just pointed out a sadly very common reasoning error using the data parent provided (that in their area black people make very bad choices when it comes to vaccines). The error is so common in public discourse it's worth pointing out every time as it makes discussion hard as it can always be killed by quoting a stat implying the other side is racist.
- dang 5y agoIt was obvious flamebait. You may have had a more nuanced intention in your head, but those don't communicate themselves—the burden is on the commenter to disambiguate (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&sort=byDate&type=comment&query=disambiguate%20burden%20by:dang https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...). The kind of thing you did post is statistically highly likely to turn into a nasty flamewar, so please don't do it again. Your reply here contains some of the same, though not quite as bad. Please edit this sort of flamebait swipe out of your HN posts in the future.