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Re:Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Is Absolutely Right About Racist... by dang on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @04:43PM (#18983374)
We've banned this account for trolling. That's what flamebait on inflammatory topics is, intentionally or not.
Re:Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Is Absolutely Right About Racist... by gdy on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @06:20PM (#18984236)
He has a point, though.
Re:Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Is Absolutely Right About Racist... by dang on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @07:21PM (#18984737)
It seems like a shallow and obvious one to me, but if I'm mistaken and there's more there there, it deserves to be expressed substantively and respectfully. Otherwise the only effect is to rile up agreers with positive charge and disagreers with negative charge—just what we don't need.
Re:Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Is Absolutely Right About Racist... by gdy on Thursday January 24, 2019 @04:16AM (#18987133)
I consider that argument to be a case of "Reductio ad absurdum"[0] and don't see anything disrespectful in it.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reductio_ad_absurdum

Re:Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Is Absolutely Right About Racist... by dvtrn on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @08:08PM (#18985097)
It seems like a shallow and obvious one to me

That's really unfortunate.

I could go on quite a bit about how, as a man of color, it gets fatiguing having certain conversations or trying to express certain points of view in these types of socio-political debates lately (to my dismay sometimes right here on HN-a forum that holds itself to a certain standard of debate but seems quite eager to throw it out, convenience permitting), but looking around at a lot of other comments in this very thread that seem to run contrary to whatever personally defined "truths" are out there, it'd probably just get downvoted and flagged as well.

I'll just leave it like this, if it seems "shallow", to you-dang-then probably it's time for some deep personal introspection because like gdy, I think shadowbained's point isn't wrong and I don't fault him for the fatigue that's probably in his soul which results in a delivery style that doesn't fit a mold of pretend decorum. A mold manifested and curated by political-egotists, IMO. (This last point made as broadly as possible)

Re:Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Is Absolutely Right About Racist... by dang on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @11:31PM (#18985990)
I don't think you're taking into account how frequently these things get repeated. Anything so frequently repeated becomes tiresome.
Re:Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Is Absolutely Right About Racist... by dvtrn on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @11:44PM (#18986044)
The irony.

I'll try not to let it be too much of a burden on me as I sleep tonight..

Re:Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Is Absolutely Right About Racist... by gdy on Thursday January 24, 2019 @04:12AM (#18987121)
Many more things are repeated just as frequently, but somehow they don't result in banned accounts.
Re:Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Is Absolutely Right About Racist... by dang on Thursday January 24, 2019 @02:00PM (#18991797)
Sure, but it's not hard to understand why. Race war is one topic, array indexing is another. Which is the greater risk to this site? If the answer isn't obvious, please read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
Re:Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Is Absolutely Right About Racist... by gdy on Friday January 25, 2019 @10:55AM (#18998989)
I don't really think that comment presents any risk to HN.