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Of course, for lots of reasons. First, it's a flamewar topic that has been prosecuted ad nauseum on this site for many years, and the guidelines specifically ask you not to introduce those "unless you have something genuinely new to say about them" [1], which you didn't. Second, venting indignation is not what HN is for. That's noise, not signal, and the worst noise is noise that leads to more noise. Third, debating a human being's mental health in public, which some of you are all too eager to do, turns HN into a freak show that is a form of sickness in its own right. Let's call it social illness. Fourth, once you've seen all of this dozens of times it becomes bone-achingly tedious.

In short, nothing is less in the spirit of HN. I'm sure you didn't do any of the above intentionally, but the trouble with all such problems is that they're the sum of unintentional addends.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html



Well ok. I really did my best. Maybe you can work out how you'd like to note that this story is a direct link to a video of a guy who continually uses wildly racist language and then make that note the way of your choosing on such direct links to videos of such individuals? Maybe you'll get a different result.




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