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virtually all Africans, middle easterners, and Asians have a fundamentally paternalistic view

Don't write things like this here. You have a Twitter TL for this.

My comment was relevant to the article and the post to which I was responding. If you want to interpret the rules to preclude any generalizations about people from different cultures when talking about those people as a group, then you should ban any discussion of immigration. Because any discussion of immigration that requires pretending groups of people are culturally fungible is simply misinformation--ignorant people talking to each other based on shared ignorant assumptions.

That's not what you said, and I'm not interested in having a debate about what was playing inside your head when you wrote it; as you well know, we're responsible for the impact our comments have on the threads, and this was obviously a provocation.

I'm not the boss of this place; you can just mail hn@ycombinator.com if you'd like to propose a new guideline about "discussion of immigration".

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—-John Maynard Keynes

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