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I was agreeing with you until you wrote: > we're decreasing, the typical white middle-class couple is facing extinction. [...] I don't mean this with a grain o
by andyjohnson0 3y ago
I was agreeing with you until you wrote:
> we're decreasing, the typical white middle-class couple is facing extinction. [...] I don't mean this with a grain of racism
Please don't do this. "We" on HN and in the west and in world in general is incredibly diverse. Your comment disrespects this human diversity. Please take some time to think about that.
- Uinchuling 3y ago[flagged]
- saagarjha 3y agoThis isn't how discourse works and you know it. It is eminently acceptable to censure people who put forward racist and eugenicist views even if done so politely.
- Uinchuling 3y ago[flagged]
- saagarjha 3y agoYeah, now you're both racist and impolite.
- bemusedthrow75 3y ago"Our very survival" is not threatened and you know it. Pretty sure no wealth-controlling multi-billionaires look like indigenous Bolivians.
- the_third_wave 3y agoThey can look like Carlos Slim Helu (#8 on the Forbes list of billionaires), Mukesh Ambani (#9), Zhong Shanshan (#15), Gautam Adani (#24), etc. There is no reason why a wealth-controlling multi-billionaire can not look like a native Bolivian.
- bemusedthrow75 3y agoOf course there isn’t. But you understand that wasn’t my point, yes?
- keyle 3y agoI actually removed it after trying it to word it differently as I knew someone would pick on this instead of focusing on my main point. Thanks.
- bemusedthrow75 3y agoYour main point is, to be clear, inherently discriminatory on a basis that looks a lot like a shallow proxy for race.