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Your overt racism is perhaps 70 years out of date. Plenty of people expressed the same doubts in 1950, with good reason. There hadn’t been any examples of succ
by nindalf 5y ago
Your overt racism is perhaps 70 years out of date.
Plenty of people expressed the same doubts in 1950, with good reason. There hadn’t been any examples of successful democracies outside of a handful of countries. But to repeat the same racist canards in 2022 is shameful. You ignore the evidence of 70 years of successful democracy in tens of countries around the world.
Democracy backsliding is a recent worldwide phenomenon. Notice how few Americans have faith that the last election was conducted fairly. Notice how some Americans almost succeeded at violently overthrowing their government a year ago. And when they did, no one condescended to them by saying “oh, maybe it’s a racial thing”.
- lookalike74 5y agoBut it was a racial thing, heavily-encouraged by the losing party for years (decades actually) and with a well-documented history as such. Every U.S. Capitol police officer heard racial epithets before they were attacked on Jan 6 and racism fueled the distrust.
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- dang 5y agoPlease don't take HN threads further into flamewar, regardless of how wrong someone is or you feel they are. You broke the site guidelines badly here. "Don't feed egregious comments by replying; flag them instead." a.k.a. please don't feed the trolls https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html