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Being considerate of other people is Stalinism, is that what you're saying?

That's what Stalin said.

But since parent was being sarcastic, yes, Stalinism is about being considerate.

The peasants were actually, legitimately being oppressed. Someone rose up to fight a good fight and ended up saying (as a well known someone in these circles frequently says) the non oppressed group should be killed. Yep: it's pretty Stalinist.

Please don't post unsubstantive comments to HN, especially on inflammatory topics.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11050454 and marked it off-topic.

What a total non sequitur. You haven't showed that rotw is saying "meritocracy is discrimination." You've merely insinuated that by saying this total cliche.