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Oh grow up. This is pure concern trolling.

“Concern trolling” is when someone pretends to be concerned but isn’t actually, and really thinks the opposite.

I’ll wager the commenter was legitimately bothered by the statement (as I was). You may disagree with his opinion, but it’s not cool to question his motive.

It’s totally cool to question motives and in fact it’s an important part of understanding why things happen.

On HN I think we expect better, which includes the courtesy to not question each other’s earnestness, and to challenge people’s positions and not their motivations.

Well I hate to tell you this but motives are an important piece of how the world works. People don’t think and say things in a vacuum. I am not generous with giving people the benefit of the doubt when their position is in alignment with white supremacists.

> It’s totally cool to question motives

Oh yeah? OK, in that case: Yours are looking ever increasingly dubious.

Most of HN submitted content is worth reading for technical merit alone, but it does not include with racist or sexist content. If anything, we treat racist and sexist content as something to fight.

That I raised attention to this issue does not justify a problematic label like "concern trolling".

We are better than this, and our content should reflect that.

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