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Comment by blueboo | Hacker News Reader

Elderly white man finds diversity and inclusion perplexing; cherry-picks incidents to reinforce self-serving worldview. Here, we find a fellow product of privilege with identical politics congratulates him on his brave stance.

A perspective as fresh as the author himself, thank you for sharing this!

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Please don't take HN threads further into ideological flamewar.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

The notion that the color of a man or woman's skin determines whether you should consider their ideas is intellectually and spiritually bankrupt.

From your comment I get the feeling that you think that an elderly white man does not have the same right to speak as a young black woman.

If that’s the case, I have bad news for you: you are a racist.

If that’s not the case, stop talking about skin color when discussing someone’s opinions. That’s also a tad racist.

Please don't respond to a bad comment with another bad one. It arguably damages the thread more, since the original comment can always be flagged but a flamey subthread usually cannot.

This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

In all honesty I don’t think my comment is worse by any means.

I just stated that if you consider skin color when judging one’s opinions, then you are a racist. And I stand by my point.

Please let me know which of the guidelines my comment broke.

OK, I've taken out the bit that said it was worse.

It broke the site guidelines by being ideological flamebait. Comments like this are predictable and tedious, and so are the flamewars they feed.

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