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Re:Racial Profiling via Nextdoor.com by gluelogic on Wednesday October 14, 2015 @12:01PM (#10387369)
"Most people would consider something which amplifies bad traits to be a bad thing."

This is only true if a thing _only_ amplifies bad traits.

Re:Racial Profiling via Nextdoor.com by omginternets on Wednesday October 14, 2015 @12:51PM (#10387744)
This is a fair point, but in the present context, it seems like the claim is that nextdoor.com is _only_ amplifying bad traits.

At the very least, it seems like the present claim implies that bad traits are eclipsing the good ones. The reason I think this matters is because tech evangelism has a worrying tenancy to write problems off as existing prior to the technology, without honestly evaluating whether or not the technology is responsible exacerbating the problem.