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Re:Black barbers have become mental health advocates for Afr... by x86_64Ubuntu on Tuesday August 24, 2021 @12:21PM (#28290916)
Such a comment like the one you are responding to comes around like clockwork on HN whenever "black" is mentioned.
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Re:Black barbers have become mental health advocates for Afr... by dang on Tuesday August 24, 2021 @02:08PM (#28292711)
That's to be expected from any large, open, anonymous internet forum and is why the site guidelines say this:

"Don't feed egregious comments by replying; flag them instead."

a.k.a. please don't feed the trolls. If people didn't feed it, it wouldn't grow. Therefore the problem is entirely a co-creation.

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

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Re:Black barbers have become mental health advocates for Afr... by Spivak on Tuesday August 24, 2021 @02:39PM (#28293056)
I always feel weird about flagging comments.
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Re:Black barbers have become mental health advocates for Afr... by dang on Tuesday August 24, 2021 @02:51PM (#28293204)
Ok, but please don't fuel flamewars as an alternative.
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Re:Black barbers have become mental health advocates for Afr... by imbnwa on Tuesday August 24, 2021 @01:31PM (#28292160)
Yeah, let's not forget the thinly veiled uproar in the "Netflix for Black People" thread[0]

[0]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28087309

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