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Comment by Jimmc414 | Hacker News Reader

Really? I have not found that to be the case. Would you mind linking to an example of racism or misogyny on ZH? If you have proof of your assertions I will dump them as a source.

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Interesting that asking someone to provide proof to support accusations of racism earns one a down vote these days. I guess it's easier to make assertions and censor requests for proof than it would be to provide proof to support such strong accusations. I expected better from HN.

I wasn't babysitting my comments so I didn't see your reply. But as another commenter noted, the issue is in the comment threads primarily. While the articles aren't overtly anti-Semitic you can quickly deduce the dog whistles based on the comments which are full of extreme bigotry. I used to read ZH every day and they eventually morphed into a clubhouse for the ignorant and as noted above, actively provoked those responses with coded language. I submitted numerous complaints to the site and never saw a comment taken down or any behavior change from the top so I turned my back on the site and haven't looked back.

fair enough. Sorry if it seemed like I was implying you down voted me. I do see your point about the comments on ZH, but honestly HN is a rare site that still generates high quality comments and doesn't have a bot infiltration problem poisoning the comment sections to serve another agenda. So you are right but as you probably agree policing a site's comment section can be tricky in our current climate.

It's likely that they are referring to the comments section, not the posted articles.

You don't have to read many comments on ZH to see what the OP is talking about.

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