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One reason could be that it quickly devolves into Jew hatred, as the replies to your comment already has. I rarely see stories about the US getting any comments on how Americans make bread out of babies. I would much rather not have that on HN. This is not 4chan.

EDIT: I have receipts, https://archive.ph/KT4q8




You're referring to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41066729. That comment was rightly flagkilled by users, but I believe you misread it. It was sarcastic and meant the opposite of what it appeared to be saying. In other words, it was more or less agreeing with your own view.

HN does get some genuinely antisemitic comments, most of which get posted by one or two serial trolls who keep making new accounts. We ban those whenever we see their latest incarnations—it's a whack-a-mole thing.

Edit: please see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41071782 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41071809 also. I've replied in each place you posted this because people often jump to wrong conclusions about the community and it's important not to do that.


So if I find a lunatic IDF member saying kill all Palestinians you would agree to stop debating this issue out of safety risks against arabs?


If any discussion of it includes Jew hatred, then HN is not the place for it.


You're right this is HN not 4chan, because none of the things you said have actually happened here and people can easily have good respectful debate. It feels like you're attempting to use this as a way to silence debate around the country of origin rather than anything else


It did happen: https://archive.ph/KT4q8 and to be quite frank, that is just the most egregious example and this thread is anything but respectful debate with statements like "I've taken to using it because i feel uncomfortable even naming them a lot of the time" and implying that HN is somehow afflicted by institutional corruption.


I think you misread that post. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41071644.

Btw, you don't need screenshots of HN comments. Anyone with 'showdead' turned on in their profile can read the original: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41066729.

All: if you turn 'showdead' on, please don't forget that you did so, because we sometimes get emails from people asking "how can you possibly condone $horrible-comment appearing on HN?" when in reality the account has been banned for years.




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