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> mostly white males

What is this supposed to imply, exactly?

An extreme reading: white men of the past and (some) of the present were/are racist, therefore we all are.

It should go without saying that (probably) isn't a charitable reading.

It boggles my mind how we went from a google search result to white supremacy.

I'd like people to please exercise restraint, the world feels like it is falling apart where every conversation becomes political/racial. If this is going on HN, I wonder how it is elsewhere.

Yeah, it’s a bit much. The “extreme” reading is slowly becoming the only acceptable one. Partly because of comments like the one precipitating the thread: there’s no good reason to try to connect these items.

I never said they were racist. What does it mean that someone would assume I meant that?

It probably doesn’t mean what you think or are trying to imply.

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