One of those is not like the others (it's roaches.com).

Either I'm missing a joke or you need to travel more. Calling mexican immigrants roaches is a thing.

My assumption was that it referred to this [1], but then I’m not a racist POS so maybe I’m out of the loop.

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roach_(smoking)

Yeah that's definitely not the situation here. I know the guy well.

Never heard that before either, but personally, I would prefer not to travel to wherever immigrants are called roaches.

I haven't heard that word being used in years living around there and also being hispanic.

To me it just looks like parent is cherry-picking some domains to try and put words in their mouth.

If the person owns roaches.com out of hundreds of domains then you're going to try to make it racist so the owner looks racist?

I never understood why trying to make innocent things racist isn't considered racist itself.

lol Yeah you know more than me bud, because my initial intention clearly was to portray someone as a racist. it didn't just come up through organic conversation.

It's totally normal to own a domain like molest.com. Totes normal every day stuff. I'm totally crazy for cherrypicking a few! hehe!

I’ve only heard of hispanic comedians using it in recent years:

https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/john-leguizamo-latinos...

I first heard that joke in a 1990’s standup routine, fwiw. It could have been the same person telling the joke, I guess.

Anyway, it used to actually be used by white american racists; it’s been weakened to just self deprecating humor, kind of like jewish comedians like to tell jew jokes.

Not unheard of to squat on domains to prevent them from being used for nefarious purposes. Not saying that is what he is doing, but unless he starts using them for racist purposes, I am not going to hold this against him.

Literally nobody asked your opinion of how he uses his domains. But thanks for your sage response. Please continue playing devils advocate in situations you're completely ignorant toward. It really benefits everyone.

Redditization of HN is impressive. Kcplate comment is totally fair and relevant, but it seems Swozey does not care about fair and relevant...

Indeed, their entire comments on this thread are just passive aggressive and sarcastic insults, it's actually impressive how much anger there is. I noticed this Redditization as well, there are a lot of anti capitalist comments on HN recently which I don't remember seeing several years ago. For a discussion forum about startups and highly paid software engineers, they sure are surprised to see where their money comes from.

Anti-capitalist comments on MY hn??? No WAYY! You got here in 2019 bud. HN was far more political and anti-capitalist in the beginning. This was a HACKER group, not a startup venture capitalist group.

Do you think this account is my only account? I've had lots of throwaways in the years prior, I've been here well before you have, at least based on your current account date. It was not anti-capitalist in the beginning, it was always made as a startup forum, no matter what the name of the site says.

LOL sorry darkmodeguy, I didn't consider that you might have multiple hackernews accounts. That's totally normal bro! And it's totally normal for me to know you have had multiple older HN accounts but NOT for you to assume that I have also had multiple older HN accounts. Having "multiple throwaways over the years" is totes normal. Absolute genius!

Will HN ever let us block people?

LOL "reddization of HN." I've been on HN for years before you. Maybe commenters should listen to the OPs better and stop playings devils advocate so much. Because especially in this specific scenario it is absolutely stupid.

Yeah, we've got a guy with essentially a right wing militia fortress on the border of TX who owns blatantly illegal-immigrant racist trope domains and it's not related at all. Some engineer who commonly talks infrastructure is just making all of this up because he's bored on HN this weekend. Who wouldn't squat on such gems as "molest.com" to keep them from being used?

> Some engineer who commonly talks infrastructure is just making all of this up because he's bored on HN this weekend.

Well, it is the internet after all.

Apparently you are unaware of how these sort of commenting forums work. Bless your heart.