Ask HN: What did you learn the hard way?

Re:Ask HN: What did you learn the hard way? by madeuptempacct on Wednesday October 03, 2018 @03:47PM (#18134103)

" Peterson at the University of Toronto in March 2017 In response to the controversy, academic administrators at the University of Toronto sent Peterson two letters of warning, one noting that free speech had to be made in accordance with human rights legislation and the other adding that his refusal to use the preferred personal pronouns of students and faculty upon request could constitute discrimination. Peterson speculated that these warning letters were leading up to formal disciplinary action against him, but in December the university assured him that he would retain his professorship, and in January 2017 he returned to teach his psychology class at the University of Toronto."

-Wikipedia

Whatever, close enough.

"He takes the long view of things"

Nonstatement.

"and discovered that some religions got some things right"

Funny that you brought religion into this - he is a lot like religion, that is - he has a lot of fans, and gets some things right, infrequently.

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Re:Ask HN: What did you learn the hard way? by dang on Wednesday October 03, 2018 @10:31PM (#18136661)

Would you please not do flamewars on HN? Especially not about classic flamewar topics. I realize you didn't introduce it, but you did more than anyone else to wreck this thread.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Also, personal attacks like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18133374 will get you banned here, so please don't do that again.

Also, while I have you: if you post nationalistic slurs like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18121532 again ("shitty country"), we will ban you.

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Re:Ask HN: What did you learn the hard way? by madeuptempacct on Wednesday October 03, 2018 @11:52PM (#18137054)

I have a ton to say on this, but here is the tl;dr:

1. Read my other posts in this thread - does it look like I came here looking for a flamewar?

2. Calling Pakistan a "shitty country" is not a nationalistic slur, it's a reflection of the economic, educational, and political reality there. Would you ban me for saying "Pakistan has a weak economy, a poor education system, few businesses, a corrupt political system, and a history of losing wars to India."? That statement and "Pakistan is a shitty country" are equivalent. The irony is heavy here btw.

3. If you are going to go through and cite my posts - consider citing the post in the Pakistan thread where I intentionally deescalated and stepped away from a flamewar, it's kind of relevant here.

Anyway, I am going to be a good boy, don't ban me.

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Re:Ask HN: What did you learn the hard way? by dang on Thursday October 04, 2018 @12:11AM (#18137125)

1. What matters is what you did, not what you came looking for. Please don't do it again.

2. Those statements are not equivalent.

3. That sounds good; I didn't see that one.

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