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Re:Tell HN: Political Detox Week – No politics on HN for one... by adrienne on Monday December 05, 2016 @11:50PM (#13112342)
RIGHT OVER HERE there are HN users spouting the usual disproven gender-essentialist bullshit about women in STEM fields: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13101949

I have no idea why you feel so much more comfortable at this place than MeFi - MeFi isn't good, by any stretch of the imagination, but at least when people get banned for horrific misogyny or anti-Semitism people don't come along later and say "but they had great technical contributions!"

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Re:Tell HN: Political Detox Week – No politics on HN for one... by Mz on Tuesday December 06, 2016 @12:40AM (#13112510)
I understand your anger. But I do not understand why you feel some need to take it out on me.

I do not need to justify to you why I think mefi is far worse than hn. Feel free to go hang there and stop adding your toxic comments to hn, like you said you would prior to deciding to come back and dump on me some more.

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Re:Tell HN: Political Detox Week – No politics on HN for one... by adrienne on Tuesday December 06, 2016 @01:23AM (#13112638)
a) I wasn't taking it out on you; b) I don't generally comment at MeFi either, and for most of the same reasons?
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Re:Tell HN: Political Detox Week – No politics on HN for one... by Mz on Tuesday December 06, 2016 @02:02AM (#13112759)
It sure comes across like you are taking it out on me.

The comments you claim would not happen on mefi would likely get deleted. They don't here. That does not make mefi better. It just makes it easier to pretend it is or to be fooled by appearances.

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