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If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.
"Why should we classify them as Canadian artists? Don't think any of them even live in Canada anymore"
i think its a good question.
i attempted to point out, rather simply, how attempts to answer this question in terms of where an artist was born vs where the artist lives vs where the artist recorded their music, etc are arbitrary distinctions. in my view, there is no difference between these artists, qua artists or their art qua art, regardless of which lines they cross on a map, or when. i am struggling to see that distinction alone as a valid criterion to determine which forms of art are worthy of supporting and promoting, or, in the active, suppressing. and i am sensitive to the censorship of art in particular, so perhaps this is reason for my emotional "hot take".
but my hope was that my comment would evoke a thoughtful response, and not some sort of racist flame war, yes indeed.
That is, the burden is on you to disambiguate your intent. Your intent exists in your head, but not in anyone else's—you have to communicate it clearly if you want other people to give you thoughtful responses.
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
Kindly keep this kind of ignorant viewpoint to yourself.
There are a lot of differences, and if you can't or won't see them that not our problem.
As a Canadian, I don't want your two party political structure (soon to be one maybe?) and your supreme court of mostly old clerics making decisions based on their religious views in my country thanks. Or shall we talk about your daily mass shootings?
If you guys think that is working for you, so much the better for you.
My friend—who is much more restrained in speech than I am—and I were saying that we don't like to come to the 'orange site' as much as before, despite the sometimes excellent discussions, and though it's hard to say precisely why, the reason we came up with is the libertarian slant.
You are doing a great job keeping the tone civil, but I think in the end it just leaves us with a community made up of say 33% of people politely saying impolite things.
By controlling the tone, could it be that our trolls have just learned to deliver their absolutist, unfeeling and insensitive comments in polite language?
We can detect tone but not intent, right? So we control the tone, but the trolls here (and no doubt about it we have them like anywhere else) have just learned to sealion people.
And I stand by the provocative nature of the parent post.
What if he/she had said 'The difference between a Russian and a Ukrainian is just a line on a map?' That is a politely stated idea. Would a Ukrainian have to take that with restraint too?
It doesn't change the fact that you also broke the site guidelines by taking the bait and responding with an outright flamewar post. People need to follow the rules regardless of how provocative another comment is. Otherwise we get a downward spiral (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...).
We don't think in terms of civility on HN; I haven't used that word in years except to tell people we don't use that word. We're going for kindness, which is something quite different.