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Re:Ask HN: What are you reading these days? by QwertyPi on Sunday November 12, 2023 @03:13AM (#38238352)
> I remember listening to stories about a black preacher that converted a KKK leader and he did it through tolerance and compassion not by screaming hateful things back through a megaphone

The fact is, nothing in society was won by polite persuasion, but the compulsion to make people comfortable is the core of white supremacy. You might want to check your own judgement on hate if tolerating hateful people is your litmus test.

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Re:Ask HN: What are you reading these days? by jack_pp on Sunday November 12, 2023 @03:18AM (#38238372)
> but the compulsion to make people comfortable is the core of white supremacy.

Sorry, what? Then woke people are just white supremacists by your account. What's the point of the comical micro aggression complaints if it isn't to make woke people comfortable?

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Re:Ask HN: What are you reading these days? by piuantiderp on Sunday November 12, 2023 @04:06AM (#38238641)
"I'm sooo not like those white supremacists!"

Sorry to break it out to you, both them and you are in the common pursuit of comfort and safety. One from the edgy teenager, I'm-totally-not-like-my-parents point of view, the other from I'm-totally-not-like-those minorities.

The fact is, you want to be treated in comfortable ways by them. Assuming you are a minority. If you are not, well, how's mom? And why was she so emotionally unavailable?

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