Bigotry Tolerance Debate

Discussions center on defining bigotry, hate towards groups based on race, gender, or sexuality, and whether society or platforms like HN should tolerate or exclude such views and their proponents.

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cs1717p Dec 21, 2017 View on HN

For each of the questions you have listed, there is opposite viewpoints of some (questionable) legitimacy:White supremacists would argue that it is multiculturalists who seek the abolition of the white race through introduction of millions of high birth rate other demographics into white countries.Pro-conversion therapy anti gay people would argue they are saving the individuals from mental problems, social difficulties, and other negative side effects of what they believe is a consciously

devbat8712 Jun 8, 2020 View on HN

Hating a group of people is not innocuous.

DangitBobby Apr 23, 2023 View on HN

Not every choice other people make different from you is bigoted.

whenchamenia Aug 7, 2019 View on HN

Idk, denying rights to 'bigots' seems possibly bigoted. Please turn in your speech card.

wonderzombie Mar 27, 2014 View on HN

Here in the US we're in the middle of a debate about what views are socially acceptable and which are not. The tide is turning against views and policies which disadvantage gays as a category of people simply because they are gay.Thus it's not a question of whether someone's sub-human but whether or not we, as a society, find those views acceptable. Pro-slavery or nakedly white supremacist views fall into a similar category. I believe anti-gay bigotry is drifting towards that a

kansface Dec 26, 2022 View on HN

Hating your out group is not a virtue.

JulianMorrison Mar 19, 2021 View on HN

What's actually happening: society is justifiably deciding that some things that used to pass without notice, because people were very racist or sexist or homophobic or whatever, are now recognisably and irreparably awful. And we should probably stop doing them because they are hurting people. Both directly, by being the constant micro-aggression wallpaper of marginalised lives, and indirectly, by sustaining a cultural environment that comforts bigots in their bigotry.I don't expect

rendang Feb 12, 2025 View on HN

"I don't think people should be allowed to partake in a particular behavior" is not the same thing as "People of a specific group should be killed".

rriepe Nov 17, 2020 View on HN

Stop making up groups of people to hate. Stick to the argument or don't comment.

rainonmoon Jan 3, 2024 View on HN

Ideas don't confront each other, people do. And when the people representing one set of ideas refuse to engage in good faith and instead promote discrimination based on race, gender, and sexuality, they should lose the privilege to have those ideas amplified. 10 years ago it was not controversial that you should become a social pariah for broadcasting hate speech. This whole situation would be utterly juvenile and ridiculous if it wasn't so harmful.