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s.e. smith
Personal blog · meloukhia.netculturepolitics
s.e. smith's personal blog at meloukhia.net covers culture and politics. Since 2012, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “My Grandma Can Code Circles Around Your Dudebro”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked for posts by s.e. smith on hipster racism and on deafness in TV medical dramas, including whether parents should cure deaf children.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- My Grandma Can Code Circles Around Your Dudebro2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-07-19
- I Am Tired of Hearing Programmers Defend Gender Essentialism2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-03-22
What Hacker News says?
http://meloukhia.net/2009/07/hipster_racism.html > Hipster racism involves making derogatory comments with a racial basis in an attempt to seem witty and above it all. Specifically, the idea is to sound ironic, as in “I’m allowed to say this because of course I’m not racist, so it’s funny.” It’s an aspect of a larger part of the hipster culture, which wants to seem jaded and urbane and oh-so-witty. Using language wh…
Comment linking /2009/07/hipster_racism.html
on “Sweden Twitter Experiment Goes Painfully Awry”Submitted My Grandma Can Code Circles Around Your Dudebro as a story · 14 points
HN discussionHave a read of what the author (of the article, not JoshTriplett) has to say about parents who refuse to cure their childrens deafness: http://meloukhia.net/2014/07/deafness_on_greys_anatomy_again... "... in an era where it’s possible for hearing loss and deafness to be treated with implants and sophisticated technology, many people are debating whether they should ‘cure’ deaf children ..." "... The choice of whethe…
Comment linking /2014/07/deafness_on_greys_anatomy_again/
on “I Am Tired of Hearing Programmers Defend Gender Essentialism”Submitted I Am Tired of Hearing Programmers Defend Gender Essentialism as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted I Am Tired of Hearing Programmers Defend Gender Essentialism as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted My Grandma Can Code Circles Around Your Dudebro as a story · 2 points
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