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Re:Poverty-Fighting Startups by dudzik on Sunday January 14, 2018 @07:37AM (#16144010)
I fail to see what the ugly part of the American past has to do with the current thread. Your comment feels a lot like Whataboutism[0] to me.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism

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Re:Poverty-Fighting Startups by dudzik on Sunday January 14, 2018 @11:00AM (#16144765)
Can someone explain to me the downvotes?

I can only derive from them that someone thinks that what I wrote is wrong. Maybe I am missing something and I just do not know.

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Re:Poverty-Fighting Startups by gumby on Sunday January 14, 2018 @03:49PM (#16146325)
It appears a number of people use downvote to mean "I disagree". I suppose they think HN is Facebook.

Also of course some people use it correctly, which confounds the data.

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