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Comment by RosanaAnaDana | Hacker News Reader

Bro you seem personally attacked. Do you feel personally attacked by an open discussion of the realities of race and racism in the 20th century?

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I feel disgust for people who go around calling others racist

Its a sort of religion, and there's the fanatics who accuse others of heresy.

I'd feel the same disgust for ISIS activists

Can you show me where in the comment some one called someone else racist?

Otherwise, it seems like you are projecting yourself onto the Belgium Congo being identified as racist, which is just like a "Well yeah duh" level of racism. It seems like you are angry that the Belgium Congo was identified as a racist enterprise, which even by their own accounts is objectively true. So do you self identify with the Belgium Congo?

I mean, I will go on record and say that Leopold II was a racist based on what he did in Congo. I'm comfortable doing that. And while we're at it, Roosevelt was racist for putting all Japanese-Americans into camps. Btw, did you know that Belgium and the US fought Hitler and Tojo, who were also racist? I know all very controversial stuff. Man, I'm enjoying calling people out for racism on the internet and I feel so good about myself right now.

I guess I meant it to whomever that smurph was. In your original comment, I didn't see you calling out any individual either in the comments, or in history as being racists. It might not be clear because I believe the admins have deleted the post of the sockpuppets/ smurphs.

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