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It's surprising to see you flagged and downvoted. I would have thought, "concentration camps are bad" plus "our prisons do incredible harm to people" would be u
by yareal 3y ago
It's surprising to see you flagged and downvoted. I would have thought, "concentration camps are bad" plus "our prisons do incredible harm to people" would be uncontroversial takes.
- nonrandomstring 3y ago[flagged]
- yareal 3y agoI think some of your initial posts might have read as tone deaf. A sentiment similar to "look at the beauty in this tragedy" can feel like downplaying the tragedy, or it can feel like downplaying similar, other tragedies. ("This concentration camp made their space beautiful" can carry the implication that others don't, unintentionally suggesting that somehow the people in this one are better than the people in that one.) You later clarified, but I suspect there's also a group of folks who don't want to hear that the US had concentration camps.
- nonrandomstring 3y agoYou're right. And I was really pleased that geephroh introduced me to the "model minority myth". It's an area of psychology I've not encountered before. Cheers
- dang 3y ago> uncontroversial takes That's not sufficient for a good HN post, especially when the effect is to perpetuate a flamewar. The HN guidelines contain a point about this: "Don't feed egregious comments by replying; flag them instead." (which is our euphemism for please don't feed the trolls) https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html