A History of Black Print

Re:A History of Black Print by rq1 on Saturday January 01, 2022 @07:44PM (#29764514)

What do you have to say to the people who were denied a career or a life to certain extent because of their skin colour?

> I can only see this as an extremely selfish attempt to reignite conflict so as to improve their own and their groups perspectives to the detriment of the rest of society

Yeah sure, you had slavery in mind right?

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Re:A History of Black Print by dang on Sunday January 02, 2022 @12:41AM (#29766187)

Please don't perpetuate flamewars on HN. That's just as bad as starting them, and is explicitly against the site guidelines.

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

a.k.a. please don't feed the trolls

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

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Re:A History of Black Print by rq1 on Sunday January 02, 2022 @08:25AM (#29768510)

Sorry there, that was so obvious but I was so upset at the same time. I should have flagged it and walked away.

Not sure if they are pure trolls though. You can sometimes hear the same discourse IRL. I can’t stand them.

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Re:A History of Black Print by dang on Sunday January 02, 2022 @12:57PM (#29771396)

I agree, the word troll isn't that helpful here. But I think it deserves to survive in the phrase 'don't feed the trolls' since that is the wisest thing the internet ever said. It would be interesting to know the origin, actually—I wonder if anyone has traced it.

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Re:A History of Black Print by jcolman on Monday January 03, 2022 @02:16PM (#29785004)

FWIW, I asked about this here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29778358

There’s a link in the comments to this 2005 verion of the net.abuse FAQ, which references “Do not feed the trolls”: http://www.faqs.org/faqs/net-abuse-faq/troll-faq/ reply

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Re:A History of Black Print by wolverine876 on Saturday January 01, 2022 @08:33PM (#29764834)

> these issues have been solved a long time ago where I live

I can't think of anywhere where that is true, but perhaps you can give us examples, even of places besides where you live.

Usually I hear similar claims from people who are not directly targeted by the discrimination. They don't see it and (IME) don't want to have to deal with it.

Racism must pass endless barriers to belief. No matter how great the evidence, people seem to demand more.

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Re:A History of Black Print by wombatmobile on Saturday January 01, 2022 @09:03PM (#29765004)

> as it stands these continuous attempts to bring up race at every opportune moment

Listen to yourself. Your exaggerations and name-calling say more about your own internal state of mind then they do about the world.

What can you learn about yourself?

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Re:A History of Black Print by dang on Sunday January 02, 2022 @12:44AM (#29766203)

Please don't take HN threads further into flamewar, regardless of how wrong someone else is or you feel they are. It only makes everything worse. Crossing into personal attack is particularly not cool.

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

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Re:A History of Black Print by comrh on Saturday January 01, 2022 @09:46PM (#29765251)

Thinking racism has been a "solved" problem for a "long time" is just incredibly naive. Have you considered historical injustice still effect the present day? Have you considered other people's experiences when they tell you racism still exists and has a major impact on their lives?

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