Comment by mark_l_watson | Hacker News Reader

Comment by mark_l_watson | Hacker News Reader

This article is like a breath of fresh air for me. Silencing critics is about as anti-American values as it gets, in my opinion.

It can be rough supporting free speech by those who we might disagree with, but life is not always easy.

I am especially disappointed by Mitt Romney - I thought that he was a decent guy but his recent comments are untrue and misleading.

A little off topic: I would love to see an accurate list of how much money each Congress person gets from defense industry lobbyists and I would like to also see how defense lobbying affects the news media. After spending half a working lifetime in the defense industry, I can both support my country while at the same time think clearly about the financial motivations for war and conflict.

Silencing critics is to free speech what not buying bad products is to free markets.

Some people are right. Some are wrong. Some are in-between. Some are wrong, but in an interesting way. Some believe the marketplace of ideas needs a few more swastikas...

Unless you have unlimited bandwidth (in which case you should have a random algorithm talk to you), everyone wants more or the speech they like (including interesting-wrong), and less of the stupid speech.

I'm hoping you're just as strongly against those "anit-CRT" bills being passed saying that American's history with slavery can't be taught in schools and the rest.

You know full well that's not what people are upset about CRT for.

We're told from every direction (pastors, educators, advertisments, people like you) that White people are the worst thing to happen to the earth and they're the reason for most of the problems in the US. It's insane, it's unacceptable, and it has to stop.

"The worst thing to happen to the earth" is a "just" a bit over the top. But why wouldn't white people be "the reason for most of the problems in the US". It seems tautologically true, since majority of population in the US is white.

They're not the reason for most of the homicides for example. Minorities can, in fact, cause a majority of certain problems.

The reason for most problems is different from the reason for a small subset of problems.

That has nothing to do with CRT.

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