Comment by tailrecursion
6 years ago
Do the people who are downvoting this comment believe that sympathy for Scott's class of people IS trendy at the moment? What's the objection to the comment.
6 years ago
Do the people who are downvoting this comment believe that sympathy for Scott's class of people IS trendy at the moment? What's the objection to the comment.
Contrary to popular belief, HN's demographic is not immune to knee-jerk hostility triggered by the notion of a concept merely existing, wherever one might come down when discussing it.
I feel I should provide an example:
White fragility.
"White fragility" is a kafkatrap: you can't object to "white fragility" as a concept without that being taken as a demonstration of "white fragility". There are sensible reasons to object to the "notion of (such) a concept merely existing" if you care about the standards of intellectual argument - as most people familiar with SSC would.
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Also there’s a minority who treat the downvote button as a disagree button.
Which is explicitly blessed by pg himself.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=117171
"I think it's ok to use the up and down arrows to express agreement."
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Is it a minority?
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