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It absolutely was about Israel. Stop lying.

• throwawaypath 4mo ago
  Your antisemitism is showing. The comment doesn't mention Israel whatsoever.
  • nohell 4mo ago
    [flagged]
    • throwawaypath 4mo ago
      >I make fun of all races, religions, and ethnicities equally. No you don't.
• dang 4mo ago
  If you meant Israel you would have said Israel. Instead you said "God's chosen people" which was a (presumably sarcastic, and certainly flamebaity) reference to Jews. Principled criticism of Israel is fine. There have been a great many such posts on HN. Religious and/or ethnic flamebait is not fine. This is not a difficult distinction, and anyone who is posting in good faith should have no difficulty making it. Your comment broke the site guidelines in other ways as well.
  • ebbi 4mo ago
    Yet you leave blatantly Islamophobic comments in another thread untouched. Nice work.
    • dang 4mo ago
      We moderate anti-Islamic flamewar posts exactly as we do other religious flamewar posts. I dug up a few examples for you below. There are others, but this should be more than enough to persuade any fair-minded reader: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40747009 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40747009 (June 2024) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40746973 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40746973 (June 2024) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38623290 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38623290 (Dec 2023) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27534558 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27534558 (June 2021) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25319171 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25319171 (Dec 2020) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18080981 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18080981 (Sept 2018) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14116279 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14116279 (April 2017) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13647198 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13647198 (Feb 2017) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13286221 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13286221 (Dec 2016) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11669863 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11669863 (May 2016) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11518006 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11518006 (April 2016) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11340026 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11340026 (March 2016) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10897270 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10897270 (Jan 2016) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10590568 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10590568 (Nov 2015) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10564079 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10564079 (Nov 2015) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9992931 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9992931 (Aug 2015) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8008392 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8008392 (July 2014) As you can see, these go back over a decade and in fact for as long as I've been doing this job. The mistake in your comment is the assumption that we see everything that gets posted to HN. We don't come close—there is far too much for that to be possible. I'd be surprised if mods see even 10% of what gets posted to HN. Since we can't moderate what we don't see, we rely on users to bring egregious posts to our attention. If you'd like to be helpful in the future, you'd be welcome to send us links so we can take a look. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&query=likeliest%20explanation%20by%3Adang&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...