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What do you have to say to the people who were denied a career or a life to certain extent because of their skin colour?

> I can only see this as an extremely selfish attempt to reignite conflict so as to improve their own and their groups perspectives to the detriment of the rest of society

Yeah sure, you had slavery in mind right?

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Please don't perpetuate flamewars on HN. That's just as bad as starting them, and is explicitly against the site guidelines.

"Don't feed egregious comments by replying; flag them instead."

a.k.a. please don't feed the trolls

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

Sorry there, that was so obvious but I was so upset at the same time. I should have flagged it and walked away.

Not sure if they are pure trolls though. You can sometimes hear the same discourse IRL. I can’t stand them.

I agree, the word troll isn't that helpful here. But I think it deserves to survive in the phrase 'don't feed the trolls' since that is the wisest thing the internet ever said. It would be interesting to know the origin, actually—I wonder if anyone has traced it.

FWIW, I asked about this here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29778358

There’s a link in the comments to this 2005 verion of the net.abuse FAQ, which references “Do not feed the trolls”: http://www.faqs.org/faqs/net-abuse-faq/troll-faq/ reply

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