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You may have a point about this one (the German one), but the comment about this site and silicon valley in general is vital feedback. This website is constantl

You may have a point about this one (the German one), but the comment about this site and silicon valley in general is vital feedback. This website is constantly in dire need of self reflection. We should be up in arms seeing people on this site patting themselves on their back so smugly. It's truly disgusting, and incredibly harmful to the fabric of society. There may be fine line to walk here, but I don't think I do well to sugar coat it... there's a reason I have quite a few upvotes for that comment, a bit more than I'm used to seeing. Others are also concerned and frustrated by this privileged rhetoric. Regarding Germany, yeah I may have gotten carried away towards the end of this comment. I could have given more reasoning or left out the part daring people to downvote or flag my comment. On the other hand, having recently visited Germany, I was very unimpressed. Their society has changed and is less prone the horrors of the 20th century, but culturally still very vulnerable to totalitarianism. I'm really torn now, because I'm not sure it's unfair to say it oozes from their pores. They have massive issues with intolerance, racism, and able-ism to this day. Honestly, it somehow seemed worse in certain ways to the USA. This stuff should be talked about. People should not believe the myth that German fascism is a thing of the past, that has been overcome.

dang 4y ago
Sorry, but https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34854191 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34854191 is in no way "vital feedback". That's just name-calling and fulmination of exactly the sort that HN accounts are asked not to post. People who go in for flamey rhetoric often imagine that they're providing "vital feedback" to whatever they're flaming against but this is just a rationalization. Comments like that are extremely common and the only effect they have is to inflame and degrade discussion. If you keep posting like that, we're going to have to ban you. If you want to post some sort of substantive and thoughtful critique, that's of course fine. (Btw, the vast majority of this community (over 90%, last time I checked) is nowhere near Silicon Valley. Commenters here often have unrealistic images of who they're talking to.)
- P_I_Staker 4y ago
  Yet people on this site are desperate to defend SV and put it on a pedestal, which is the problem. It wasn't flamebate at all, I'm not rationalizing bad behavior. What I said was 100% fine, except the part about getting flagged. I just said they were entitled. I did call them jerkoffs, but they consider themselves the "most impactful people on the planet", so that's fair. Even if that poster isn't from SV, this is a common attitude you hear from people in the area, on a site about the area. It doesn't matter that most commenters aren't from SV. This in no way degrades discussion. Your response is filled with fallacies. Do both of us a favor and save your chastising. If you want to ban me for arguing with you go ahead. I don't really post comments like this very often and you can ban if you don't like what I say in the future. There's no need to talk down to me. This is wasted energy.
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dang 4y ago

Sorry, but https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34854191 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34854191 is in no way "vital feedback". That's just name-calling and fulmination of exactly the sort that HN accounts are asked not to post. People who go in for flamey rhetoric often imagine that they're providing "vital feedback" to whatever they're flaming against but this is just a rationalization. Comments like that are extremely common and the only effect they have is to inflame and degrade discussion. If you keep posting like that, we're going to have to ban you. If you want to post some sort of substantive and thoughtful critique, that's of course fine. (Btw, the vast majority of this community (over 90%, last time I checked) is nowhere near Silicon Valley. Commenters here often have unrealistic images of who they're talking to.)

P_I_Staker 4y ago
Yet people on this site are desperate to defend SV and put it on a pedestal, which is the problem. It wasn't flamebate at all, I'm not rationalizing bad behavior. What I said was 100% fine, except the part about getting flagged. I just said they were entitled. I did call them jerkoffs, but they consider themselves the "most impactful people on the planet", so that's fair. Even if that poster isn't from SV, this is a common attitude you hear from people in the area, on a site about the area. It doesn't matter that most commenters aren't from SV. This in no way degrades discussion. Your response is filled with fallacies. Do both of us a favor and save your chastising. If you want to ban me for arguing with you go ahead. I don't really post comments like this very often and you can ban if you don't like what I say in the future. There's no need to talk down to me. This is wasted energy.
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