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I am surprised that this is so severely downvoted.
The second and third paragraphs are excellent, with sources, and I have very different standards for voting depending on the speaker and what I expect from him or her. Do others not? I would encourage sam0345 to make more posts like this until they are standard for him, and then later dowvote him for such posts when posts like this are typical for him.
Upvoted.
If it had excluded the sentence "No one gets beaten up for being black - and very few people ever did," I would have given it an upvote without a second thought. Because of that comment, I gave it an upvote only because I think it doesn't deserve to be at -6, and would not have upvoted it if I saw it at 0.
I wouldn't have downvoted it in isolation, but it seemed to me that, taking his other activity today into account, sam0345 was basically trolling. My habit is just to downvote that stuff until it goes away. Maybe the line between relatively high-quality trolling and needlessly inflammatory dissent is blurry...but are we really short on Brave Truth-Tellers here on LW? I submit we are not.
(Pretty short on black people, though.)
That just sounds self-congratulatory applause-lights. What's your evidence for this claim?
I read "Brave Truth-Tellers" as a slightly sarcastic way of saying "contrarians", which we've got plenty of.
Quite.
No we don't.
Oh no, not at all, I meant it more like "Oh LW, you so crazy!" I believe we are very, very contrarian here; stating unpopular beliefs is a form of showing off (see The Irrationality Game). I am not sure what quantifiable evidence I can offer of that, but I'm far from the first to make the observation.