[hinkley]

Working in groups and reduced emphasis on anti cheating seem ripe for entitled white boys to leverage more than everyone else. Am I missing something, or are those at odds with the rest of the suggestions?

I suppose working while attending classes might make office hours difficult but study groups easier. What we can’t know is if he was summarizing for effect and he left out their rationale, or if these suggestions came to him this arbitrarily.

Mostly I get a vibe that he’s decided to die on this hill and he’s being stubborn and on some level enjoying the “persecution”. We all do things that feed our own narrative and don’t really provide any other payoff. My self sabotage has never been this public.

[dang]

Please keep flamebait and name-calling like "entitled white boys" off HN. Tossing Molotov cocktails into already-inflammatory discussion is not ok.

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

[hinkley]

Not sure why an entitled white boy calling out his peers is flamebait, but ok.

[dang]

By the standards of this site and (I'm pretty sure) the vast majority of its readers, dropping a phrase like that is obviously flamebait. If you want evidence for that, you needn't look further than the first reply to your post.

We've already had to ask you this, coincidentally even using a similar analogy: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20580702. No more firebombs, please.

Since you bring it up, I'm guessing you felt that the "calling out your peers" aspect was a mitigating factor. The thing is, your comment didn't say anything about that, and readers have no way of knowing. Intent doesn't communicate itself, so the burden is on the commenter to disambiguate.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que....

[hinkley]

Yeah, I’m not defending that other thread. You made the correct call.

I can appreciate the irony of discussing a guy who is being recalcitrant on the subject of how words or examples make others feel and then doing the same thing. Have a good Sunday.

[RandomInteger4]

> "entitled white boys"

Wow, racist much?

[dang]

Please don't respond to bad comment with an even worse one. That only damages the commons even further.

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