shminux comments on 2012 Survey Results - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Nornagest 02 December 2012 09:47:54AM *  -1 points [-]

Racist do not generally like Obama because he is has an African father. This is incredibly surprising.

This seems... well, nonsensical, to be honest. Either there's a typo somewhere in it or I'm completely failing to get the point. Would you mind clarifying?

Comment author: [deleted] 02 December 2012 09:53:55AM *  1 point [-]

"is" was a typo.

Comment author: Nornagest 02 December 2012 10:04:03AM *  0 points [-]

Yeah, I'd assumed that one. Still, about the only way I can make sense of the line is if I assume you mean Afrocentric racists, and those are... well, actually not vanishingly rare (aside from some lexical quibbles on "racist"), but certainly rarer than the Eurocentric kind and pretty clearly not what was being discussed in context.

Comment author: [deleted] 02 December 2012 10:16:03AM *  2 points [-]

Racist do not generally like Obama because he has an African father. This is incredibly surprising.

The second sentence was sarcasm.

Comment author: Nornagest 02 December 2012 08:54:18PM 0 points [-]

That would explain it.