Re:Yad Vashem's database of Holocaust victims' names
by 6d6b73 on Tuesday April 25, 2017 @01:54PM
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I don't see what's wrong with reminding people that there were other groups of people that we killed in WW2.
I'm also surprised that "didn't lift a finger" is considered inflammatory.
I admit that I allowed myself to be little provocative but I think it would be better not to censor comments, but instead moderate non-technical links from the forum before inconvenient discussions take place. If this is not a place for discussions like that, it's also not a place for links to articles that will start such discussion, right?
Re:Yad Vashem's database of Holocaust victims' names
by dang on Tuesday April 25, 2017 @03:20PM
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Obviously that phrase isn't inflammatory in itself; no phrase is. It's the angry, grandiose condemnation I was referring to.
The first principle of HN is that it's not just a technical site. Please (re)-read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
There's no substitute for commenters learning the ropes of how to self-regulate in discussions here, technical or non. One of the ropes is not to comment out of fury.
HN is for reflective conversation. If we're going to talk about the Holocaust we need to do it that way, not this way ("what about", "didn't lift a finger", etc.)