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Knock it off. These are children who had no say in what their ancestors did.

evocatus 4y ago
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- dang 4y ago
  Can you please stop posting flamewar comments to HN? We've already had to ask you this and, I'm sad to say, you've posted a ton of such comments. That's not ok here, and we ban such accounts. I don't want to ban you because your substantive points are interesting and welcome, but this sort of internet attack is not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for. 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.
krapp 4y ago
They have a say in what remains of the power structures created by their white supremacist ancestors, the privileges that system provides and the inequities those privileges feed on. They could be working to dismantle those power structures, but they have to recognize that they exist first and that yes by default all things are not equal. Ignoring that fact or obsessing over petty things like not having a pass to say the n-word doesn't help anyone or accomplish anything productive.
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- BlargMcLarg 4y ago
  I'm going to put this as simple as possible: Stop having kids fight or worry about adult problems. Surely, we don't have to write a five paragraph essay on the problem with perpetuating hate cycles among children in a thread about plummeting teen mental health. Let it go. You got a million other places to open this debate.
  - krapp 4y ago
    >Stop having kids fight or worry about adult problems. Have you ever seen Mister Rogers, or grown up poor or in a bad neighborhood? Kids have to worry about adult problems all the time. They often don't have a choice in the matter. Leaving them to learn about the adult world only when they become adults is cruel, and beyond the point at which they will have ceased to care unless they were taught to at an early age. >Surely, we don't have to write a five paragraph essay on the problem with perpetuating hate cycles among children in a thread about plummeting teen mental health. I never said anything about hate, nor does the linked article make any implication about "hate cycles," but it's telling that you immediately tried to make that link.
- dbsmith83 4y ago
  - krapp 4y ago
    Please grow up.
    - dbsmith83 4y ago
      Hah, what does that mean? Grow up and start exploiting kids? No thanks. I don't need to recruit kids to fight culture wars for me
- akomtu 4y ago
  They don't have to be fighting for your cause, even if you believe that cause is noble. If someone driving a white honda totals your car, you don't harass random drivers of white cars. This cult of skin & genitals, that's called "progressive" for unknown reasons, is a shallow lunacy that's appealing to people who can't see further than the skin color.

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dang 4y ago
Can you please stop posting flamewar comments to HN? We've already had to ask you this and, I'm sad to say, you've posted a ton of such comments. That's not ok here, and we ban such accounts. I don't want to ban you because your substantive points are interesting and welcome, but this sort of internet attack is not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for. 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.

They have a say in what remains of the power structures created by their white supremacist ancestors, the privileges that system provides and the inequities those privileges feed on. They could be working to dismantle those power structures, but they have to recognize that they exist first and that yes by default all things are not equal. Ignoring that fact or obsessing over petty things like not having a pass to say the n-word doesn't help anyone or accomplish anything productive.

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BlargMcLarg 4y ago
I'm going to put this as simple as possible: Stop having kids fight or worry about adult problems. Surely, we don't have to write a five paragraph essay on the problem with perpetuating hate cycles among children in a thread about plummeting teen mental health. Let it go. You got a million other places to open this debate.
- krapp 4y ago
  >Stop having kids fight or worry about adult problems. Have you ever seen Mister Rogers, or grown up poor or in a bad neighborhood? Kids have to worry about adult problems all the time. They often don't have a choice in the matter. Leaving them to learn about the adult world only when they become adults is cruel, and beyond the point at which they will have ceased to care unless they were taught to at an early age. >Surely, we don't have to write a five paragraph essay on the problem with perpetuating hate cycles among children in a thread about plummeting teen mental health. I never said anything about hate, nor does the linked article make any implication about "hate cycles," but it's telling that you immediately tried to make that link.
dbsmith83 4y ago
- krapp 4y ago
  Please grow up.
  - dbsmith83 4y ago
    Hah, what does that mean? Grow up and start exploiting kids? No thanks. I don't need to recruit kids to fight culture wars for me
akomtu 4y ago
They don't have to be fighting for your cause, even if you believe that cause is noble. If someone driving a white honda totals your car, you don't harass random drivers of white cars. This cult of skin & genitals, that's called "progressive" for unknown reasons, is a shallow lunacy that's appealing to people who can't see further than the skin color.