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Ask HN: Should this video be banned from HN?

2 points by sebleon ↗ HN
Saw this post on the the front page earlier, noticed it got deleted when I tried going to comments. I'm curious what the community thinks about the deletion and contents of this video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DP6uyX9hDc0

It's a woman's perspective on being ostracized in the Atlanta tech scene. Author claims she was falsely accused of doxing and stalking people in order to get her banned from meet ups and event spaces, because of her political views.

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oldandtired
No. She was relating her experiences. It is a fact of life today that your politics will get various people upset to the extent that they will do what they can to besmirch you name and reputation because they feel that you are sub-human for holding a viewpoint that is different to their "righteous" viewpoint and therefore you can be and should be treated with contempt and anything that happens to cause you harm is acceptable.

People have been doing this for millennia. Political correctness has existed in every generation and though what has been defined as the political correctness of time changes, it is the nature of people to hate those who are different or hold different opinions to those you may hold.

It is okay to have robust discussions. It is okay to actually hate the viewpoints or lifestyles of others. What is seriously not okay, is to hate the individual. They are just as important as you, irrespective of sex, age, race, wealth, political viewpoint or religion or any other characteristic that makes them different to you.

I am a disciple of Jesus Christ and I may hate a particular lifestyle, a belief or viewpoint or particular attitude, but to hate the person is against all that I have been taught. Especially, when I come from a place that is, in effect, no different. All people are precious, so very precious. My God came and lived as the perfect man and then chose a death so incredibly horrible just to allow every single person who has ever lived or will ever live to have the singular opportunity to be forgiven for every wrong they have done. We all have the choice to accept this or refuse it. But in all essentials, no one is able to make it in their own. In that everyone is alike, no exceptions bar the one who is God and man, Jesus Christ.

As has been stated elsewhere by various people of varying beliefs and viewpoints, if there is speech you do not like, then use more speech to counter it. However, don't go to the place of killing someone just because they are different or believe different things to you.