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> witnessing open racial segregationism on HN

You are misinterpreting something. "Diversity" is not exclusively about race.



The comment that started all this was explicitly about race. Here's a quote:

> England doesn't want to be a land for the English, because to do so would make them racist. They have strength in their diversity. Blah blah blah.


Yes, but the comment DeathArrow responded to, which is apparently what started all this bickering about racism (collapse that comment to see what I mean), was not.

joe_mamba's use of "diversity" reads as being about diversity of opinion; it only appears to be about race given the context you pointed out.

Seriously, what part of "United people are dangerous for the elites" suggests that the people should segregate themselves and each other?


I have a hard time believing that, sorry. joe_mamba literally quoted the same use of the word "diversity" that I did, and concurred with the sentiment - that it "leads to division". And went on to add that Germany was also "under the spell of a cult".

You're suggesting that joe_mamba simply used a paragraph of barely-veiled racist drivel as a jumping off point to make a completely unrelated and totally-not-racist point about how diversity of opinion is harmful and "leads to weakness"? And agreed with the "cult" rhetoric for good measure?

Why exactly should we ignore the context? An excess of charity, perhaps? How are we supposed to interpret "similar issue in Germany" without the context?


But not about segregation.




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