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It's not good to talk about other HN users that way, and anyway I don't think it's the case this time
by iforgot22 2y ago
It's not good to talk about other HN users that way, and anyway I don't think it's the case this time
- baq 2y agoThere are users and there are trolls. There is nothing racist in calling a government of a superpower interested and involved in the most revolutionary tech since the Internet.
- iforgot22 2y agoAgree about the last part, but that doesn't make someone a troll
- baq 2y agoIt does for me. Not sure what your definition of troll is.
- iforgot22 2y agoIt used to mean someone who's trying to enrage people by baiting ("trolling"), and now it can also mean someone arguing in bad faith. And Chinese troll I guess means someone doing this on behalf of the Chinese govt.
- baq 2y agoYup we agree then. Claiming an argument to be racist is a bad faith attempt at guilt tripping Americans; a form of FUD and whataboutism. It is not done by normal users, they don’t need it.
- iforgot22 2y agoOr it can just be a normal user who's wrong this time. He looks like a normal user. In theory it could all be a cover, but that'd be ridiculous effort just for HN boards. Throwing those accusations around will make this place more like Twitter or Reddit.
- baq 2y agoThere’s ordinary xkcd wrong on the internet and there’s repeating foreign nation state propaganda lines. Doing it in good faith does not make it less bad.