[sculper]

If this were the HN of ten years ago, I might have expressed similar sentiments.

Between the comments in this thread though, and the complete lack of moderator attention, I can only come to the conclusion that xenophobia is perfectly fine on HN - provided you couch it in the appropriate rhetoric and don't use any mean words.

[thin_carapace]

i deal with uncomfortable questions regularly so obviously there will be a bias on my part for handling them. it seems to me like a lot of people believe that shutting down questions is the best idea here. can you please explain to me why it is xenophobic to ask questions? i dont really see the link and i dont see why shutting people down for asking questions is a good idea.

[sculper]

If you're truly curious:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just_asking_questions

But judging by your other recent comments, I suspect that you are not asking this question in good faith.

[thin_carapace]

you must understand that I don't see myself to have bad faith here. I don't see what's stopping people from asking their own questions back instead of waving the finger. why not query me to determine my nature based on my response? making assumptions based on the way I sound, i cant believe that you people dont see the irony, this is how actual racists behave.

[thin_carapace]

TODO perform natural join on concepts of prejudice/categorization, map intersecting behaviours, classify results as positive/negative relative to wider community outcomes, back propagate specific result scores to refine social objectivity circuit ... prioritize acknowledgement of personal fallibility regarding argumentative positions ... gently handle percieved conflicts ... disregard advice regarding validity of querying ...