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It's surprising to see you flagged and downvoted. I would have thought, "concentration camps are bad" plus "our prisons do incredible harm to people" would be uncontroversial takes.
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#22Beautiful bit of history to come from something terrible our government did.
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#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's surprising to see you flagged and downvoted. I would have thought, "concentration camps are bad" plus "our prisons do incredible harm to people" would be uncontroversial takes.
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I think some of your initial posts might have read as tone deaf. A sentiment similar to "look at the beauty in this tragedy" can feel like downplaying the tragedy, or it can feel like downplaying similar, other tragedies. ("This concentration camp made their space beautiful" can carry the implication that others don't, unintentionally suggesting that somehow the people in this one are better than the people in that one.)
You later clarified, but I suspect there's also a group of folks who don't want to hear that the US had concentration camps.
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#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
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I think some of your initial posts might have read as tone deaf. A sentiment similar to "look at the beauty in this tragedy" can feel like downplaying the tragedy, or it can feel like downplaying similar, other tragedies. (" This concentration camp made their space beautiful" can carry the implication that others don't, unintentionally suggesting that somehow the people in this one are better than the people in that…
You're right. And I was really pleased that geephroh introduced me to
the "model minority myth". It's an area of psychology I've not
encountered before. Cheers
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#26Why the hell is ndkxmwnrbto's comment about the dignity of the Japanese poeple flagged and dead? I'll repost the wikipedia link here [0] It perfectly echos what I am saying about Viktor Frankl and the remarkable human capacity for finding strength under extreme adversity. Whoever flagged that should be ashamed. [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shikata_ga_nai
You stirred up an egregious flamewar in this thread, basically ruining it.
You've also been taking lots of other threads on low-quality generic tangents. That's not what HN is for, so please stop posting these things.
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Please stop posting like this to HN.
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#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
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It's surprising to see you flagged and downvoted. I would have thought, "concentration camps are bad" plus "our prisons do incredible harm to people" would be uncontroversial takes.
> uncontroversial takes
That's not sufficient for a good HN post, especially when the effect is to perpetuate a flamewar. The HN guidelines contain a point about this:
"Don't feed egregious comments by replying; flag them instead."
(which is our euphemism for please don't feed the trolls)
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#29Why the hell is ndkxmwnrbto's comment about the dignity of the Japanese poeple flagged and dead? I'll repost the wikipedia link here [0] It perfectly echos what I am saying about Viktor Frankl and the remarkable human capacity for finding strength under extreme adversity. Whoever flagged that should be ashamed. [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shikata_ga_nai
You stirred up an egregious flamewar in this thread, basically ruining it. You've also been taking lots of other threads on low-quality generic tangents. That's not what HN is for, so please stop posting these things. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Sorry my tries to make an interesting conversation ended in a
trainwreck. I did get piled on for basically repeating what was in
the linked article, and then defending it. Probably should have just
walked away from a topic that cannot be discussed in this sort of
format. At least I hope the George Carlin sketch was worth it. Sorry.