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Re:'Cancel Culture' Comes to Science? by Nasrudith on Wednesday January 15, 2020 @08:06AM (#22053826)
So the diabolical strategy of living their life, doing good work to their conscious, and the qualified replacing those who die of natural causes? History's greatest monster right there!

That is a downright sinister use of moving the goal posts that effectively calls not actively ensuring suppression of all inevitable all succession related mutations an evil. Since how else do they hope to maintain a status quo post-mortrem? Merely leaving the replacements to decide would.

I wonder if there is a word for that "not-even remotely a crime" cast as something sinister vilification effort. Given an inverse Halo effect I wonder if most users are even aware that they are doing it.

Re:'Cancel Culture' Comes to Science? by dang on Wednesday January 15, 2020 @04:44PM (#22059066)
Please don't take HN threads even further into ideological flamewar. That's the wrong way down a one-way street.

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

Re:'Cancel Culture' Comes to Science? by growlist on Wednesday January 15, 2020 @08:56AM (#22054113)
Or: having seen their plans for global domination utterly fail over and over again (with the deaths of tens of millions of people as an inconvenient side-effect), communists fail to get the message and instead of being able to succeed whilst being honest with people, are only able to advance their wrong-headed utopianism through a covert and anti-democratic approach.
Re:'Cancel Culture' Comes to Science? by dang on Wednesday January 15, 2020 @04:45PM (#22059070)
Please don't take HN threads even further into ideological flamewar. That's the wrong way down a one-way street.

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

Re:'Cancel Culture' Comes to Science? by growlist on Wednesday January 15, 2020 @05:39PM (#22059606)
Ok.