Can we please give him the benefit of the doubt and assume he intended to note that society doesn't allocate opportunity evenly across all demographics, even though it should.
Don't vote the comment up though - let it fall peacefully to the bottom of the pile where it belongs.
Yes, I feel like people didn't understand the point of my comment. I was pointing out that the OP's "ideal world" sounded pretty xenophobic when taken in context. Just because we don't care about someone doesn't mean it's irrelevant if they're killed.
To anyone attacking me, my comment was sarcastic and intended to point out the xenophobia inherent in the OPs statement. I wasn't saying that "I" thought minorities should be killed, I was dryly saying that the "ideal world" spoken about by the OP would be a horrible one in which many innocent people would die.
For that matter - what kind of terrible person would publicly go on Hacker News and say that they think minorities should die? Why would that be your first thought?
> what kind of terrible person would publicly go on Hacker News and say that they think minorities should die? Why would that be your first thought?
Are we reading the same HN?
I took your comment immediately to be what you intended, but how can you possibly act surprised at the comments here anymore? This isn't 2012's HN anymore.
I'm not trying to defend the guy if he actually meant what people here seem to think he meant, but it's possible he was referring to how society ('we') doesn't care about minorities, rather than saying that he himself doesn't care about minorities.
your comment is probably just really shittily delivered wry commentary on the justice system, but...
logically, this doesn't follow. drugs already kill the people you don't care about (in your case, minorities, although i suspect you really mean hispanics and blacks, not "minorities").
the statement was about excepting the ones you DO care about (white people, in your case). so there would just be more white people, but no less "minorities".
Are you sure it's meant as a serious statement? I took it as an observation on the sad state of the world we live in (i.e. the general apathy of people toward those unlike themselves).
Don't vote the comment up though - let it fall peacefully to the bottom of the pile where it belongs.