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Delightful. Let’s take the reciprocity one step further: send a few travellers back from the airport on a whim and refer to them as “illegals” while doing it.

dang 5y ago
Could you please stop posting unsubstantive and/or flamebait comments to HN? You've been doing it repeatedly, and we ban that sort of account, because we're trying for a different sort of forum here. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
- transitory_pce 5y ago
  @dang i was speaking from experience. It happened to me. Including the part where they call you an "Illegal" and treat you like garbage, for a technicality that was later considered their fault. I might make it sound frivolous but let me assure you its a very grievous injustice that people are subject to. And its worthing bringing to light. And it happens way more often than you would like to think. Google it.
  - dang 5y ago
    Sure, I believe you and have no quarrel with what you're saying here. The problem is that you didn't include any of that information in the GP comment, so there was no way to disambiguate it from garden-variety flamebait. Since that's internet default when it comes to inflammatory topics, that's what a comment like the GP will pattern-match to, unless you explicitly disambiguate it (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 fact that your comment also added snark made this even more likely, as well as the fact that you've been posting unsubstantive and flamebait comments already.

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Delightful. Let’s take the reciprocity one step further: send a few travellers back from the airport on a whim and refer to them as “illegals” while doing it.

by transitory_pce 5y ago

dang 5y ago
Could you please stop posting unsubstantive and/or flamebait comments to HN? You've been doing it repeatedly, and we ban that sort of account, because we're trying for a different sort of forum here. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
- transitory_pce 5y ago
  @dang i was speaking from experience. It happened to me. Including the part where they call you an "Illegal" and treat you like garbage, for a technicality that was later considered their fault. I might make it sound frivolous but let me assure you its a very grievous injustice that people are subject to. And its worthing bringing to light. And it happens way more often than you would like to think. Google it.
  - dang 5y ago
    Sure, I believe you and have no quarrel with what you're saying here. The problem is that you didn't include any of that information in the GP comment, so there was no way to disambiguate it from garden-variety flamebait. Since that's internet default when it comes to inflammatory topics, that's what a comment like the GP will pattern-match to, unless you explicitly disambiguate it (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 fact that your comment also added snark made this even more likely, as well as the fact that you've been posting unsubstantive and flamebait comments already.