Re:How Nextdoor reduced racist posts
by wcummings on Friday August 26, 2016 @06:35PM
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You're trying really hard to justify how this isn't racism. The poster lives there and knows these people, take it or leave it, your opinion isn't valuable.
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I'm not trying to justify anything. Saying "I don't know" is not justifying, it's admitting lack of information.
> your opinion isn't valuable.
Unlike yours, which is even though I obviously take the effort of not forming opinion before I have the information, while you seem to have formed opinion not only about the situation, but even about my motivations in discussing it, without any information to go on. If you think that makes your opinion more valuable, I think you are sadly mistaken.
What he's saying is that we don't know. Innocent until proven guilty, maybe?
This isn't a courtroom, it's OP's anecdote. Stop concern trolling.
Why did the poster mention "mentally handicapped"? Was that not an attempt to manipulate our perceptions too? Obviously playing on the notion that handicapped people are harmless, therefore it must have been race, but that too is a form of prejudice.