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Try posting anything right-wing, like government crime stats of black vs white people. You will get banned.

lwansbrough 1y ago
They love to pull up the crime stats but never the traffic stop stats or police-initiated contact stats or use of force stats. Wonder why.
robobro 1y ago
Racism = right wing? You mean alt-right?
- bufferoverflow 1y ago
  If you think posting crime stats of all races is racism, you got brainwashed by a cult.
jghn 1y ago
They did say HN is center-right.
CalRobert 1y ago
Lots of people here favour a lenient regulatory environment and are pro business which seems classically centre right. Nuanced discussion of things like immigration are challenging though, in all fora I think. I’ve tried to make the point that this is a great opportunity for Europe to pick up valuable American immigrants but somehow am apparently being xenophobic by sharing data of net tax contributions of immigrants by region of origin
jaybrendansmith 1y ago
That's simply off-topic. Not sure why you would post that on Hacker News. Most things political simply get downvoted on that basis.
const_cast 1y ago
Because that's not right-wing, that's just explicitly racist. I mean, are we really going to sit here and pretend to be so stupid that we might legitimately think someone is posting that for not racist purposes? Look, you can be as right-wing as you want and get away with it, nobody cares. The problem is a lot of right-wingers just... can't do it. They can't. They have to throw in something racist, or something sexist, or say something disparaging about brown people. It's like some kind of compulsion, I don't know. You can talk about immigration policy allllll you want. You can. What you can't do is call Puerto Ricans trash. That's off the table. So, if your example you're looking up to is someone like Trump and his cronies, that basically means yes, you're censored. Not because you're right-wing, but because you're crude and don't know how to express your views in a way that isn't disingenuous. Just be normal, be good faith, don't race bait, and you know... I promise it'll work out. I promise.

They love to pull up the crime stats but never the traffic stop stats or police-initiated contact stats or use of force stats. Wonder why.

robobro 1y ago

Racism = right wing? You mean alt-right?

bufferoverflow 1y ago
If you think posting crime stats of all races is racism, you got brainwashed by a cult.

jghn 1y ago

They did say HN is center-right.

CalRobert 1y ago

Lots of people here favour a lenient regulatory environment and are pro business which seems classically centre right. Nuanced discussion of things like immigration are challenging though, in all fora I think. I’ve tried to make the point that this is a great opportunity for Europe to pick up valuable American immigrants but somehow am apparently being xenophobic by sharing data of net tax contributions of immigrants by region of origin

jaybrendansmith 1y ago

That's simply off-topic. Not sure why you would post that on Hacker News. Most things political simply get downvoted on that basis.

const_cast 1y ago

Because that's not right-wing, that's just explicitly racist. I mean, are we really going to sit here and pretend to be so stupid that we might legitimately think someone is posting that for not racist purposes? Look, you can be as right-wing as you want and get away with it, nobody cares. The problem is a lot of right-wingers just... can't do it. They can't. They have to throw in something racist, or something sexist, or say something disparaging about brown people. It's like some kind of compulsion, I don't know. You can talk about immigration policy allllll you want. You can. What you can't do is call Puerto Ricans trash. That's off the table. So, if your example you're looking up to is someone like Trump and his cronies, that basically means yes, you're censored. Not because you're right-wing, but because you're crude and don't know how to express your views in a way that isn't disingenuous. Just be normal, be good faith, don't race bait, and you know... I promise it'll work out. I promise.