hnamazon123
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Comment · 10 years ago
Comment · 10 years ago
The article posted is literally about ideological differences so.. what?
Also, name calling? What?
I see that the submission was removed or flagged down. I suspect that has more to do with the fact that it is critical of leftism rather than that it has nothing to do with startups or programming. This community would be much better if you just removed most of these non-programming/non-startup related submissions.
Comment · 10 years ago
Gun control by definition affects other people.
What?
Comment · 10 years ago
I don't know how you can look at media organizations like the New York Times and not see that they clearly have a comically overt agenda in how they talk about him and represent his positions.
Comment · 10 years ago
> That in fact, blacks are poor because of their culture and not ongoing structural racism? I honestly feel that any worthwhile conservative arguments are being made by center-left thinkers.
What evidence do you have to suggest this is the case and that these conservative hypotheses are fairly investigated?
Sociologists are under a lot of pressure to prove leftist memes and there are many cases of fraud and very poor scientific standards.
Sociology research is effectively useless to me because of leftism. In fact, most political reporting is useless because I have to spend many more cycles tying to figure out if the person isn't just trying to virtue signal instead of be pragmatic and truthful.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/article/chump-effect/610143
> First of all, discriminating against someone because they hold intolerant beliefs is categorically different from discriminating against someone based on their religion
Religion is a set of beliefs... What?
Mainstream Islam literally calls for people to be put to death for drawing pictures of Mohammad or renouncing Islam.
> he needs to provide examples of the useful discourse we are missing out on.
Ben Shapiro is a great example.
> Frankly, the center-left vs hard-left feel like the debates we should be having as a society
No thanks, let's have a discussion about right vs left vs hard left.
Comment · 10 years ago
Yeah I agree except for the immigration thing. That is an international affair and a matter of sovereignty and has nothing to do with personal freedoms.
Leftism currently is driving the hardest for authoritarianism. I expect we'll see something similar on the right in about a decade though I'm curious to see what it'll look like considering that it seems like religiousness is on the permanent decline in America.
Comment · 10 years ago
The raison d'être of leftism is literally to bother other people because it gives leftists a feeling of power.
Comment · 10 years ago
To be fair, this is mostly goalpost moving. Leftism is now mainstream liberalism.
I used to identify as a liberal but now mainstream liberalism (leftism) is against basic things like freedom of speech.
Feels weird to identify as a 'conservative' since I grew up associating very negative things with that term but there it is.
Comment · 10 years ago
If he got this far, this guy is about 2 months away from supporting Trump.
Leftism is a religion and leftists are some of the most close-minded people you will ever meet.
MAGA
Comment · 10 years ago
None of these societal things I bring up have anything to do with the actual account of the author's fantastically awful and absurd experience with that CEO.
He clearly intended this to invoke a much wider discussion about race and system racism at the end of his essay. That's what I'm responding to.
Comment · 10 years ago
Ok, I see your point. That's fair.
Why is this acceptable to you?:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11795186
I'm not religious but this would seem to be absurdly inflammatory in normal contexts. I think that may even be illegal to put into practice.
Also why allow political stories at all if you don't want people exclusively discussing them?