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Re:Ban me at the IP level if you don't like me by defrost on Wednesday August 27, 2025 @12:31AM (#45035479)
> Or did I miss something important?

Pretty much.

The question you posed above, the question that piqued my interest that I responded to, was

> What's the bigoted history of those terms?

I barely hinted at the bigotry inherent in the creation of a black list by Charles II in response to the bigotry inherent in the execution of Charles I as I was curious as to where your interest lay.

Since then you've ignored the bigotry, ignored the black list in the time of Charles II, imagined and projected all manner of nonsense about my position, etc.

I suspect you're simply ignorant of the actual meaning of the word bigot in the time of Charles I & II, and it's hilarious seeing your overly performative accusations of others being performative.

> Want to help? Demand that police stop assaulting and murdering people of color.

I'm not sure how that has any bearing on the question of the bigotry aspect to the Charles II black list but if it makes you feel any better I was a witness against the police in a Black Deaths in Custody Royal Commission a good many years past.

For your interest:

  1661 Cowley Cromwell Wks. II. 655 He was rather a well-meaning and deluding Bigot, than a crafty and malicious Impostor.

  1741 Watts Improv. Mind i. Wks. (1813) 14 A dogmatist in religion is not a long way off from a bigot.

  1844 Stanley Arnold II. viii. 13 [Dr. Arnold] was almost equally condemned, in London as a bigot, and in Oxford as a latitudinarian.
As we're a long way down a tangential rabbit hole here am I to assume it was yourself who just walked through flagging a run of comments that don't violate guidelines? Either way curiosity and genuine exchanges go further than hyperbolic rhetoric.
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Re:Ban me at the IP level if you don't like me by ThrowMeAway1618 on Tuesday September 02, 2025 @04:27AM (#45100432)
>I to assume it was yourself who just walked through flagging a run of comments that don't violate guidelines?

You could make that assumption, but you'd be wrong. I haven't flagged any of your comments.

I suppose I could flag this one as complaining about downvotes/flags does violate HN guidelines.

But I won't. Especially as "flagging" comments or submissions should be limited to spammy and/or low-quality entries. I disagree with your comments being flagged (or even downvoted, for that matter), as that stifles discussion. And more's the pity.

Edit: Unfortunately, it's too late for me to "vouch" for your comments. But I would if I could.

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Re:Ban me at the IP level if you don't like me by defrost on Tuesday September 02, 2025 @09:09PM (#45111173)
I don't much care about the flagging either way; it's more I only noticed you replied when I saw my top level comment in this old discussion had changed state (HN makes it hard to follow old discussion threads, I don't have any custom tooling to highlight replies, just a habit of mostly circling back every few days).

> I suppose I could flag this one as complaining about downvotes/flags does violate HN guidelines.

You'd be hard pressed to justify on those claimed grounds; noticing a comment has been flagged is _not_ equivalent to complaining about a comment being flagged .. after more than ten years here it amuses me more than anything.

Again, you've sidestepped any comment with substance re: the original question of bigotry which you posed and I've addressed ..

If you'd like to address that or ask any more actual questions (rather than intuitive leaps of essentially incorrect judgement) I'm open to continuing here (tomorrow or the next day).

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