News for hackers. Stuff that matters.
Re:Launch HN: BlackOakTV (YC S21) – Netflix for black people by snakeboy on Friday August 06, 2021 @02:59PM (#28091458)
I wasn't trying to imply racism ended in the 60s, to be clear!

I intentionally avoided discussing modern politics in order to make a stronger (albeit more limited) argument, by emphasizing explicit legal discrimination. Even if someone doesn't believe in systemic racism, it's not a point of debate that black people alive today were explicitly persecuted under the law based on the color of their skin.

Re:Launch HN: BlackOakTV (YC S21) – Netflix for black people by wolverine876 on Friday August 06, 2021 @04:13PM (#28092222)
Ah, that makes more sense.

I understand what you are doing now and that used to be my approach. Now, I feel that it just allows the denialist rhetoric to perpetuate. I'm not even going to call it a myth because it's such obvious nonsense, I believe even to the people that say it - it's just push-back, a tactic.