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Tuskegee syphilis experiment, ok. However, as bad as that was, no one was injected with syphilis.

Who has ever done that?

"Not all meritocracy is bad." This is a reasonable thing to say now. We've come a long way.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammed_Bouyeri

"Top of mind" doesn't quite sound native to me. The use of the ampersand like that seems Indian too. Finally the exclamation point is slight evidence.

He has described symptoms well, but his explanations only make sense if you ignore other immigrant groups. Latin American immigrants come from similar range of poor, politically un…

OK, but to be fair to MS, this appears to have been written by a nonnative English speaker. Indian, I think. So there's another factor at work.

I have a hard time believing this about Australians: "...Madam made me work from 6am to 1am every day, with no day off. I was exhausted and pleaded for a break, but they just shout…

but if you're suggesting I'm not.

I wasn't France in WWII, I was Britain. Off topic: actually France and Britain attacked and declared war on Germany. So probably neither works as a metaphor for a victim of bullyin…

Which item in the guidelines does this blogger's writing violate?

Of course you don't have to vote it up. But why was it killed?

http://paulgraham.com/say.html

Allen, everything from that domain is autokilled. Try it yourself. Here's one you can submit: http://isteve.blogspot.com/2007/01/reasons-for-being-cheerfu...

Yes. But the article is question doesn't seem to be about politics: http://isteve.blogspot.com/2009/07/medias-bias-toward-englis...

I just tried submitting another article from his blog and again it was [dead] by the time I was redirected to the 'new' page, i.e. a few milliseconds. Here it is: http://news.ycomb…

No, the article was auto-killed. The blogger is probably blacklisted for being racially insensitive or something. Yet here is an example of one of his posts that did well on HN and…

Yes, and thank you for reading the article. It is an interesting and important point.

What is the political slant of that article?

Can you point to one of his articles that is trollish, instead of just unPC?

There's also politically correct censorship going on, amazingly. This morning I submitted this: http://isteve.blogspot.com/2009/07/medias-bias-toward-englis... . It was dead on arr…