But you do have court cases with real consequences like getting fired, paying up millions, or getting jailed for expounding racist opinions howsoever absurd and outrageous maybe. Sexism just as much. Homophobia just as much. Sadly our memory doesn't go beyond the years of Trump card for such discrimination. What you are doing here is shifting our focus from being racist to being absurd and outrageous. That is not tolerable.
Fine, keep him on HN, but allow me to appeal to @dang on the site's own guidelines at least. There can be reprieve but not reproach.
"No world leader is going to read any racist rant on internet and make decision out of it, so chill."
Oh, please. Its Exaggeration for humor. Slapstick comedy is another example of exaggeration for humor. You know it. This is my way of chilling away the anger.
There is no reason for you to have taken my comment so personally, and acted like I have insulted you and your family.
I made a point and stated an opinion. I'm not racist, or an 'ignorant', much as you wish that were the case.
My comment isn't against the guidelines, even if you disagree with it. You're the only one in this thread who has violated the guidelines.
My comment isn't specific to India. I maintain that any country with some of the problems India has should not be putting money into a space program to compete with superpowers (i.e. for clout), that money could absolutely be spent better in other ways.
Rather than engage with me productively, you decided to take a lot of personal offense and throw around insults to retaliate against a perceived sleight.
If you had said why you disagree, stuck to facts, and had a productive discussion instead of a tantrum, then you may have resulted in educating and changing not only my mind, but all the others that you complain about.
It still makes you racist. Just that you are racist to countries like India, if not India. I mean don't you think we already know that? Yet we proceeded because of our SWOT analysis favoring such missions. Don't you get it that we too are capable of making such decision rationally? That contempt attitude is what makes you racist.
Repeat after me: "India is not after clout, cheap thrills of praise and attention, etc. India gets about 5 million dollars profit for a year for launching missions like these. All of these are India's welfare money. India also gets a single digit population out of poverty every year because of ISRO alone. India gets to solve problems like high resolution real time monitoring of 100s of parametres, which contributes to GDP in millions of dollars, not Indian Rupee."
We all know India's societal ailments. We all know India takes donations from UN and West. But now? We don't have to.
No it doesn't. It just makes you incredibly insecure.
It's not more complicated than that.
Your opinions are childish so don’t really bother me. That said, that money cant be spent better in other ways. You have no idea how extremely efficient ISRO is in making use of the budget they are allocated.
It can't. The amount of money allocated to the space program is insignificant and doesn't move the needle. There are diminishing returns to putting more and more money into the same things. By investing a little into every sector you diversity and pick up the low hanging fruit.
No world leader is going to read any racist rant on internet and make decision out of it, so chill.