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Re:Amanda Gorman's “The Hill We Climb” (Full Text) by dang on Thursday January 21, 2021 @02:21PM (#25862922)
Please don't take HN threads further into ideological warfare and flamewar hell. Tossing in a Molotov cocktail of nationalistic flamebait is also seriously not cool.

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

Edit: you've done this kind of thing more than once lately. We ban accounts that do that, regardless of what they're battling for or against—we have to, because it destroys what this site is supposed to exist for. I'm not going to ban you because your account has mostly been posting good comments. On the other hand, mostly-not-exploding-bombs is not sufficient. If you'd please review the site guidelines and be more mindful of the intended spirit of the site going forward, we'd be grateful. Perhaps you don't owe your enemies better, but you owe this community better if you're participating in it.

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Re:Amanda Gorman's “The Hill We Climb” (Full Text) by dang on Thursday January 21, 2021 @02:22PM (#25862934)
This is the sort of comment I'm talking about upthread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25862817) when I say that you perpetuated a wretched flamewar. Seriously not cool. Please stop and don't restart.
Re:Amanda Gorman's “The Hill We Climb” (Full Text) by gwilikers on Thursday January 21, 2021 @01:10PM (#25862006)
I don't agree that half the country is evil, but this is a very big leap to make.
Re:Amanda Gorman's “The Hill We Climb” (Full Text) by war1025 on Thursday January 21, 2021 @01:13PM (#25862043)
Not so big as you might think.

History shows us that the line between "you are evil" and "the moral thing to do is to get rid of you" is vanishingly small.