Re:Singular ‘They’ Is Word of the Year
by dang on Tuesday December 01, 2015 @05:30PM
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Please stop posting uncivil and/or unsubstantive and/or inflammatory comments to Hacker News. We ban accounts that do that repeatedly, and you've done it repeatedly.
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The quote is completely substantive. Just because you disagree doesn't make it uncivil.
But is the irony of you threatening to ban me for "inflammatory comments" and the quote itself--about the culture of militant political correctness--not lost on you? Do you see the irony?
I like South Park too but calling that contribution "substantive" is quite a stretch.
There's no view that can't be expressed civilly and substantively, so accusations of politically correct censorship on HN don't hold much water in my opinion. It's usually just a fig leaf for low-signal ranting, when the correct thing to do is to be a good citizen and improve your behavior. Most HN users don't have trouble doing this, regardless of where they fall ideologically.