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by ram4jesus 1298 days ago
Saying we have too many people is way too close to fringe ideas like ‘useless eaters’ or something worse. Those beliefs need to be challenged at any opportunity as they are borderline dogwhistles.
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Ok well, what we (should aspire to) do on HN is not throw labels or say ominously "X is way too close to Y", which also explains nothing, but calmly explain to the GP what, in your opinion, the problem is with what they said. Using facts, reason, shared ground, your experience. Teach us something, if you can. It's not easy, and takes some effort. Just throwing labels or slippery slopes around does nothing but make HN worse.

Or, for example, explain why you say "antihumanist", and someone might be able to engage with your reasoning, argue with your assumptions, or even teach you something.

As is, about half of the paragraphs in the guidelines "In comments" section apply to your comments on this page, I think. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html