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NickHodges0702yesterday at 10:01 PM1 replyview on HN

I would think/hope that both of those comments would be flagged with even a small amount of moderation set.

Avoiding that kind of comment is exactly what we are trying to do, actually.


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coleworld45yesterday at 10:05 PM

Yes I agree, but the problem I'm pointing out is that in a phrase as simple as "X person sucks" your system flagged one as implicitly racist because the person being criticized was black.

Nothing in "Obama sucks" implied any kind of racism. If it's so baked in that with a simple phrase like that it reaches for dogwhistles, how can anyone trust the objectivity of this?

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