Black Children Were Jailed for a Crime That Doesn’t Exist • Hacker News Board

Re: Black Children Were Jailed for a Crime That Doesn’t Exist

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Post by CogitoCogito » Sat, Oct 09, 2021, 9:39 PM UTC

dragonwriter wrote: post #28

CogitoCogito wrote: post #26

Even those who support qualified immunity should find it difficult to support continued qualified immunity for those repeatedly breaking laws. I don’t understand how the individuals of the article can repeatedly break the law yet still not be held personally responsible.

> Even those who support qualified immunity should find it difficult to support continued qualified immunity for those repeatedly breaking laws. If the logic of QI (the “qualified" refers to the legal clarity of the violation) applies at all, it applies to every offense that meets the qualification. There is no coherent argument otherwise.

So then you’re saying that they aren’t covered by qualified immunity here? They appear to be repeatedly breaking the same laws after all.

Re: Black Children Were Jailed for a Crime That Doesn’t Exist

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Post by crawfordcomeaux » Sat, Oct 09, 2021, 10:05 PM UTC

secondcoming wrote: post #70

crawfordcomeaux wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Maybe it's because "white" people don't have white skin? I've literally never met anyone with #FFFFFF skin tone. There's just people who think they're white and who others would identify as white. Doesn't make them whiter... So no, let's not give lying equal respect in grammar. Let's show the distinction and deny people who think they're white any kind of collective class recognition. If you want capitalization, here…

Lying? I don't understand anything you wrote, or how it relates to punctuation.

"white skin" is literally not true. Same for "I am white." These are constructs of white body supremacy. They're lies.

Re: Black Children Were Jailed for a Crime That Doesn’t Exist

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Post by secondcoming » Sat, Oct 09, 2021, 10:22 PM UTC

crawfordcomeaux wrote: post #72

secondcoming wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Lying? I don't understand anything you wrote, or how it relates to punctuation.

"white skin" is literally not true. Same for "I am white." These are constructs of white body supremacy. They're lies.

Oh right

Re: Black Children Were Jailed for a Crime That Doesn’t Exist

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Post by hnbad » Sun, Oct 10, 2021, 10:07 AM UTC

hnbad wrote: post #46

secondcoming wrote: post #29

Why the capitalisation of 'black' and 'latino', but not 'white'? Is there a grammatical rule, or is it just politics?

It's both! Fun fact: language evolves with its use and so does spelling. Here's a longer explanation: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/why-capitalize-word-black_l_5... It explains why Black is capitalized but it also explains the reasoning behind some style guides deciding one way or the other when it comes to (w|W)hite. The short version is that prior to the move to capitalize Black white supremacists were already cap…

I know the following technically violates the guidelines because I will take about voting behavior but HN itself hasn't been sticking to its guidelines since forever and no amount of wishful thinking will prevent people to vote based on political alignment rather than "productive participation":

This was literally the least offensive, non-political and middle of the road way to explain this yet it keeps getting downvoted and now sits at -2.

But HN is a place of intellectual curiosity and doesn't have a racism or sexism problem. People just come here to share interesting facts and neat hacks and everything is apolitical. It's just a coincidence that openly white supremacist comments don't even get flagged and anything even remotely acknowledging racial issues gets downvoted. No, sire, nothing to see here, move along.

Ceterum censeo HN bad.