Comment by s_kilk
8 years ago
You do know 'purge' has other meanings aside from genocide right? Or is it more convenient for your performative outrage if you pretend otherwise?
8 years ago
You do know 'purge' has other meanings aside from genocide right? Or is it more convenient for your performative outrage if you pretend otherwise?
Please keep flamewars and online rage off Hacker News. We all know what the callout/shaming culture has wrought on the internet, and the idea of this place is to try to be different. You've perpetuated it in this thread as much as the other person whom you've scornfully criticized for it. That's the way these things usually go.
As for 'purge', if you use a politically charged word like that next to a rage word like 'fuckers', the internet dynamics are predictable. Therefore, the fault for the flamewar about communism and genocide the thread ended up in lies largely with your comment. We can argue in general about words and contexts (and sure, you're not wrong), but the point is irrelevant because the current context has such well-known properties, like dynamite and dry forests.
Could you clarify which meaning you had in mind in your original usage?
Presumably what was meant was kicking them out of the open source community and not killing them.
It's kind of amazing that this needs to be clarified. I'm starting to think that people around here are only familiar with the word as it relates to that dumb movie of the same name.
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To be fair, if one is a self-described "commie", there's only one possible interpretation. Maybe avoid associating yourself with genocidal regimes? Even as a joke (I sure hope it's a joke)? Maybe?
Communism isn't genocidal. You should read up on what it actually is instead of relying on pro-capitalism propoganda. "Somebody died because Stalin/Mao" holds no candle compared to capitalism's "somebody died because housing, hospitalizing, and feeding the poor wasn't profitable".
Please keep generic ideological arguments off HN. They're always the same, and lead to flamewars.
Ah the old "there were no poor people before capitalism" mistruth again. You might want to research what Mao did before defending it in any why.
But you're right, communism the idea is not genocidal, just all of its prominent leaders were. The fact that the ideology lends itself towards "there is only 1 truth" has nothing to do with that, I'm sure.
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