"Eschew flamebait. Avoid generic tangents."

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

Hm. I'm sorry, it wasn't meant to be a flamebait. Also, can you please clarify about tangents? Looked up for a translation of the word 'tangent' and the meaning is still unclear. (English is not my first language)

In the idiom, a tangent is a branching divergence from the main conversation; it's related to that conversation, but is taking it in a new direction. Tangents are fine, and often good, but we are careful about them here when they lead into predictable off-topic arguments.

I'm aware of your posts and I stand by my assertion.

You can add the worst "ostensibly" if it makes you feel better.

If you read more than the headline it might better your understanding.

Racism is the belief that different races are distinctly inferior or superior to one another. [1] I don't see anything in the author's post or the product that indicates they believe Black people are racially superior.

Segregation, specifically in context of what King was fighting for, means spatial or institutional separation of the races. [2] Clearly not the case here, they are pushing for more representation of Black people in media, not less.

(There are other civil rights leaders you can invoke besides MLK when you're feigning outrage btw)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racial_segregation

I’m American and believe me, at least half of the country thinks shit like this is utterly insane and divisive. But there is no reasoning with ideologues.

> 'm Russian and, probably, I don't really understand the situation with race in US.

Correct.

> But I think that MLK was fighting against this "X for black people" thing.

No, Dr. King was not fighting against Black-founded commercial services attempting to serve the particular interests of Black consumer. But, that's a pretty good illustration that your first sentence is correct (though its also a pretty good mimicry of American White conservatives coopting Dr. King, so, maybe you do understand a bit about race-based political propaganda in America.)

We ban accounts that take HN threads into poisonous flamewars. The GP did that too, and shouldn't have, but this is a whole other level of nastiness and offtopicness. Please don't post like this to HN, if you want to keep commenting here.

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

Do it!

>Oh my, buddy, you had it even worse than the yanks did. Have you ever had an apology from your state for the serfdom, any reparations?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_Revolution

Condescending to others about their own country's history is not a good look.