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Don't Be Nice

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  1. satisfice · · focus · HN ↗
    This is a post about someone marketing their personal values: asserting their importance, suggesting we should all share them, and suggesting that certain alternative values should be rudely suppressed.

    It’s not an argument, though. I don’t come away with any reason not to NICELY oppose Nazi sympathizers.

    I am not especially nice, and I don’t trust most people who behave nicely. But this post is banal. You can do better.

    1. someguynamedq · · focus · HN ↗
      This comes across as pedantic purity testing. It's also ironic and hypocritical because you're not being nice.
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