How Cincinnati Salvaged the Nation’s Most Dangerous Neighborhood

Re:How Cincinnati Salvaged the Nation’s Most Dangerous Neigh... by Myrmornis on Tuesday June 21, 2016 @10:56PM (#11951255)

Are you sure? Isn't notawacist critiquing the notion that the way to reduce particular types of crime is to eliminate from the local population a subset of society whose label is correlated with that crime? In fact it is animats whose post contained words that would usually be considered unacceptable in mainstream American discourse:

> No more black people, and no more gunfire.

notawacist goes on to point out that there are crimes of which white people are the predominant perpetrators.

Note also that notawacist's reply https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11950969 to the inflammatory sentence ostensibly identifies notawacist as holding a standard anti-racism pro-diversity position:

> I have no idea why black people or other minorities might feel like they are unwelcome around the hackers of Hacker News when they post comments like that.

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Re:How Cincinnati Salvaged the Nation’s Most Dangerous Neigh... by dang on Wednesday June 22, 2016 @12:38AM (#11951586)

Of course I'm not sure; certainty isn't possible with so little information.

The information I do have suggests that Animats was most likely commenting in good faith and that you are most likely trolling. Please don't do that here.

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Re:How Cincinnati Salvaged the Nation’s Most Dangerous Neigh... by Myrmornis on Sunday June 26, 2016 @03:52PM (#11982375)

I am not "trolling" -- what in my comment makes you disinclined to take it at face value? Thanks for in general doing a good job moderating but, with respect, I would like to point out that I find your comment here patronizing and disrespectful.

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Re:How Cincinnati Salvaged the Nation’s Most Dangerous Neigh... by pests on Tuesday June 21, 2016 @11:20PM (#11951342)

I do not believe the sentence "No more black people, and no more gunfire." indicated removing certain types of people was a solution. Just that a company invested money in an area and now there is less blacks and less gun fire. That can be a pure statement of fact.

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Re:How Cincinnati Salvaged the Nation’s Most Dangerous Neigh... by Myrmornis on Tuesday June 21, 2016 @11:25PM (#11951360)

I didn't say it did mean that. I said it "would usually be considered unacceptable in mainstream American discourse", which I am sure you agree with.

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Re:How Cincinnati Salvaged the Nation’s Most Dangerous Neigh... by cinquemb on Tuesday June 21, 2016 @11:30PM (#11951379)

HN silences people/comments with show dead, I set show_dead=true and observe them because I am human and not without bias and I strive to be open to opinion or vocal/internet (perceived) conflict.

But when you are trying to maintain an image for certain reasons, it's easy to sweep things under the rug… but that only last for so long for there is only so much rug… and considering most mainstream general discourse is more vapid banal bullshit it's not surprising to see how that might effect most viewers/admins apart of crafting such when they make the decisions they do.

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