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by dang
1421 days ago
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Comments like this are always tough because on the one hand, (a) 20 years of experience is a lot and there are lots of interesting things to share out of that, and (b) denouncing entire cultures is internet flamebait for sure, and the kind of thing we routinely ask people not to do here. No doubt (b) is why users flagged your comment. This comes up a lot in other cases too, e.g. "My spouse is from $country and I've learned that they $foo, $bar, and $baz as much as they can." Or: "I'm from $country so I get to say bad things about them." In general, the "eschew flamebait" rule (see https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html) has to take precedence because preserving the forum is more important than any specific discussion, and we're constantly trying to prevent this place from drowning in flames. It's really easy to understand how a comment like yours would land with someone else from $country (in this case Argentina), someone living there, someone having family from there, etc. I don't have a great suggestion for how to rewrite a comment like this, except to say: reduce the generalization, be less judgmental, and instead emphasize your particular experience. |
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