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You've been on this site 8 months and yet you haven't read the guidelines: Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes.

You've been on this site 8 months and yet you haven't read the guidelines: Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes. Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

dmbche 3y ago
Also in the guidelines: Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. That tramples curiosity. Are we on a submission about language? Why are you guys talking about race-based admissions and the quality of papers going down? You know what you're doing and it doesn't deserve respectful discourse
- LawTalkingGuy 3y ago
  > Are we on a submission about language? Why are you guys talking about race-based admissions My mistake. I'm also discussing the anti SAT/ACT and anti-MCAT movement on parenting forums and I open posts in new tabs to respond to them and forgot which thread was which. The reasons being given for dropping the standardized tests are to help minorities despite that tests generally end up being a positive for disadvantaged people, not a burden. That's exactly where I was going with that "anti"-racist racist teaching guidance - rules that are claimed to help minorities which are in fact the worst things you could do. > You know what you're doing You read that post and you think I want minorities to fail? That I want racist school policies? I was railing against the assumption that minority (it's always racial minorities they mean) students are failing to begin with, and then that they were failing because white courses and white standards are too hard for them. That sort of racial framing goes against decades of psych research into things like stereotype threat and is known to be harmful to students' success.

dmbche 3y ago

Also in the guidelines: Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. That tramples curiosity. Are we on a submission about language? Why are you guys talking about race-based admissions and the quality of papers going down? You know what you're doing and it doesn't deserve respectful discourse

LawTalkingGuy 3y ago
> Are we on a submission about language? Why are you guys talking about race-based admissions My mistake. I'm also discussing the anti SAT/ACT and anti-MCAT movement on parenting forums and I open posts in new tabs to respond to them and forgot which thread was which. The reasons being given for dropping the standardized tests are to help minorities despite that tests generally end up being a positive for disadvantaged people, not a burden. That's exactly where I was going with that "anti"-racist racist teaching guidance - rules that are claimed to help minorities which are in fact the worst things you could do. > You know what you're doing You read that post and you think I want minorities to fail? That I want racist school policies? I was railing against the assumption that minority (it's always racial minorities they mean) students are failing to begin with, and then that they were failing because white courses and white standards are too hard for them. That sort of racial framing goes against decades of psych research into things like stereotype threat and is known to be harmful to students' success.