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the dude is straight up racist and just because he's eccentric and mentally ill doesn't mean it should be tolerated
by nyolfen 12y ago
the dude is straight up racist and just because he's eccentric and mentally ill doesn't mean it should be tolerated
- jack9 12y ago> just because he's eccentric and mentally ill doesn't mean it should be tolerated So let's all be intolerant of the mentally ill? There's no celebration of his social contributions here, this is recognition of his technical achievement. Social behavior is orthogonal to the discussion.
- _exec 12y agoIs he actually racist, or are his moments of unclarity racist?
- drivingmenuts 12y agoTo determine that might require face-to-face contact and since he is a diagnosed schizophrenic, it might still be unclear. Even if the racism only comes out during manic periods, it would be difficult to parse that in an online medium. Since very few of us are trained to deal with that sort of episode, it is probably best to avoid the issue entirely.
- fallat 12y agoWhy not just ask?
- anigbrowl 12y agoTerry's God is only as coherent as Terry's offerings of executable code on any given day, and He mediates all of Terry's social communication. The best way to satisfy your vuriosity is to read his internal monologue stuff, which he documents religiously: http://www.templeos.org/Wb/Accts/TS/Wb2/Rants/TAD/TADRants.html http://www.templeos.org/Wb/Accts/TS/Wb2/Rants/TAD/TADRants.h...
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- nyolfen 12y agothere's no material difference for the purposes of fostering social spaces devoid of racism
- emodendroket 12y agoJust about all Americans exhibit some racism, although most of it manifests itself in the form of less-obvious, but still insidious, biases and so on, rather than calling people the n-word on Hacker News.
- nyolfen 12y agoi totally agree but i don't think it serves as any kind of counterpoint to excluding people who use the n-word from participating in discussions
- MrBra 12y agoIf you're referring to him saying "nigger" multiple times, then I think that that to him is more like a a kind of a generic bad-word to go with, and that he's not actually using it in a true "racist" sense. Of course I agree that just using that word to insult someone classifies as racist, but so far I've never seen anywhere in his comments or rants that he actually argumented something against black people.
- jmduke 12y agoQuoting from the first page of @TempleOS's comments (censorship mine, of course): I spend my days clubbing retard-ns. CLUB! CLUB! DIE N! CLUB! RETARD! N! DIE!! CLUB! N! Regardless of his mental state, this is not content that I want in any of my online communities.
- MrBra 12y agoRight, and the sense of my comment is that this does not necessarily imply that he would not actually work and then fit nice in team with a black guy, for example. That's just how I perceive that..
- jmduke 12y agoI don't think he would work and fit in with any person who objects to the casual use of that term, which is hopefully the overwhelming majority of the industry.
- MrBra 12y agoMaybe there would be no reason to discuss about that once started working and that habit would probably sink in front of more interesting/important stuff.
- pluma 12y agoSo that's what the "r---d" censor meant. I've never seen that word bleeped out before.
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- qwerta 12y ago99% americans are racists.
- gegtik 12y agodown with the 1%