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Comment by bsanr2 | Hacker News Reader

Please don't post unsubstantive comments, and especially please don't be snarky. It's against the site guidelines because we're trying for a different culture here.

Humiliating someone for not knowing something is not a good way to communicate and it poisons the local environment. It's much better to respectfully offer correct information.

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

It wasn't intended to be snarky, nor unsubstantive, though I suppose that without the necessary context or self-awareness it could come off as either. I'll admit that I may be in my emotions somewhat.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29679505

The culture I would like you to try for is one in which people don't feel comfortable questioning (or, rather, vociferously protesting through abuse of the flag feature) the validity of posts celebrating the lives of black luminaries. In general, the level of soft racism on HN is disheartening and certainly warps how I tend to respond. I join you in wishing that I didn't feel the need to mirror a lack of extended dignity with indignation.

I'm not sure that's a correct interpretation of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29840535. To me it read like the generic "why is this on HN" comment that people routinely post when they see a story that's non-tech or otherwise doesn't fit their (mistaken) model of what HN is supposed to be. (What annadane accurately called "the usual tired trope": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29840915.) It shows up a lot on "$Person has died" threads, among other places.

"This isn't relevant to me therefore it isn't relevant to the entire internet"

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