<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>webwright</author><text>Is a racist hateful?  My grandmother was a racist and was a really good&amp;#x2F;kind women who dedicated much of her life to helping others (including people of color).  She didn&amp;#x27;t treat other races hatefully, but she did have warped beliefs about other races- &amp;quot;stemming from ignorance and her religion instead of bigotry or hate&amp;quot; (your words).&lt;p&gt;I didn&amp;#x27;t compare him to nazis, skinheads, or other violent&amp;#x2F;hateful racists.  You shouldn&amp;#x27;t equate racism with hate.&lt;p&gt;In short, I think it&amp;#x27;s a fair comparison.  Right now, I don&amp;#x27;t think he&amp;#x27;s a hateful person though more information could change my mind.</text><parent_chain><item><author>intslack</author><text>More likely his (assumed) belief that marriage can only be between a man and a woman stems from ignorance and his religion instead of bigotry or hate. And while that doesn&amp;#x27;t negate the harm that his donation caused: please stop comparing him to racists.&lt;p&gt;You don&amp;#x27;t know Brendan, I don&amp;#x27;t know Brendan, nobody in previous threads comparing him to fucking racists or the Nazis knows Brendan. It&amp;#x27;s disgusting, please stop.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt;Should we be respectful for these often-arbitrary beliefs or should we try to make people&amp;#x2F;companies with these beliefs uncomfortable (but in kind&amp;#x2F;respectful way)? Honest question.&lt;p&gt;You should take the moral high ground and send him a personal communication detailing how his donation has caused harm.&lt;p&gt;No one&amp;#x27;s asking you to respect his belief, though, but this is just majorly unfair to everyone else who has contributed to Mozilla.</text></item><item><author>webwright</author><text>Today, it&amp;#x27;s being anti-gay-rights is acceptable to lots of people.  50 years ago, being a racist was acceptable to lots of people.  Would you work for or buy products from a CEO who was an unapologetic racist just because his beliefs were a product of his family&amp;#x2F;community?&lt;p&gt;A good question to ask: If you think we will evolve to the point where gay rights are a given, what should we do &lt;i&gt;right now&lt;/i&gt;?  Should we be respectful for these often-arbitrary beliefs or should we try to make people&amp;#x2F;companies with these beliefs uncomfortable (but in kind&amp;#x2F;respectful way)?  Honest question.</text></item><item><author>gojomo</author><text>And if this doesn&amp;#x27;t work, eventually when you try to message a Catholic, Mormon, Muslim, or other religiously-observant person from a denomination whose leaders publicly disapprove of homosexuality, you&amp;#x27;ll see a message from OKCupid like:&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Religion isn&amp;#x27;t normally the business of a website. But you&amp;#x27;ve expressed an interest in dating someone whose religion denies equal rights to gay people. Sure, this person may seem OK, and may even have their own opinions, but the leaders of their religion spread hatred, and it pains us to send even a single quantum of relationship happiness towards people who still affiliate with that religion.&lt;p&gt;If you still want to date them, you can click the link below, but wouldn&amp;#x27;t you really rather date the following matches, who we&amp;#x27;ve determined from their public and private questionnaire answers better reflect OKCupid&amp;#x27;s approved religious and political values?&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Seriously, I would have expected a dating website to have a deeper respect for the often-arbitrary reasons individual beliefs deviate from the norms of their family, employer, or community.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>OkCupid urges users to abandon Firefox</title><url>http://www.okcupid.com/home</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>scarmig</author><text>Opposing gay marriage [1] is a sign of bigotry and hate, by that fact alone. It&amp;#x27;s akin to excusing white supremacists in the 1950&amp;#x27;s for segregating blacks and whites and underfunding black schools because their opinions were religiously motivated (and most claimed a religion as one of the reasons--children of Ham, and all that) and because they ignorantly believed blacks were inherently intellectually inferior. Nope, no hate or bigotry at all there.&lt;p&gt;[1] With a sliver of a possible out if you support ending all legal recognition of marriage.</text><parent_chain><item><author>intslack</author><text>More likely his (assumed) belief that marriage can only be between a man and a woman stems from ignorance and his religion instead of bigotry or hate. And while that doesn&amp;#x27;t negate the harm that his donation caused: please stop comparing him to racists.&lt;p&gt;You don&amp;#x27;t know Brendan, I don&amp;#x27;t know Brendan, nobody in previous threads comparing him to fucking racists or the Nazis knows Brendan. It&amp;#x27;s disgusting, please stop.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt;Should we be respectful for these often-arbitrary beliefs or should we try to make people&amp;#x2F;companies with these beliefs uncomfortable (but in kind&amp;#x2F;respectful way)? Honest question.&lt;p&gt;You should take the moral high ground and send him a personal communication detailing how his donation has caused harm.&lt;p&gt;No one&amp;#x27;s asking you to respect his belief, though, but this is just majorly unfair to everyone else who has contributed to Mozilla.</text></item><item><author>webwright</author><text>Today, it&amp;#x27;s being anti-gay-rights is acceptable to lots of people.  50 years ago, being a racist was acceptable to lots of people.  Would you work for or buy products from a CEO who was an unapologetic racist just because his beliefs were a product of his family&amp;#x2F;community?&lt;p&gt;A good question to ask: If you think we will evolve to the point where gay rights are a given, what should we do &lt;i&gt;right now&lt;/i&gt;?  Should we be respectful for these often-arbitrary beliefs or should we try to make people&amp;#x2F;companies with these beliefs uncomfortable (but in kind&amp;#x2F;respectful way)?  Honest question.</text></item><item><author>gojomo</author><text>And if this doesn&amp;#x27;t work, eventually when you try to message a Catholic, Mormon, Muslim, or other religiously-observant person from a denomination whose leaders publicly disapprove of homosexuality, you&amp;#x27;ll see a message from OKCupid like:&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Religion isn&amp;#x27;t normally the business of a website. But you&amp;#x27;ve expressed an interest in dating someone whose religion denies equal rights to gay people. Sure, this person may seem OK, and may even have their own opinions, but the leaders of their religion spread hatred, and it pains us to send even a single quantum of relationship happiness towards people who still affiliate with that religion.&lt;p&gt;If you still want to date them, you can click the link below, but wouldn&amp;#x27;t you really rather date the following matches, who we&amp;#x27;ve determined from their public and private questionnaire answers better reflect OKCupid&amp;#x27;s approved religious and political values?&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Seriously, I would have expected a dating website to have a deeper respect for the often-arbitrary reasons individual beliefs deviate from the norms of their family, employer, or community.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>OkCupid urges users to abandon Firefox</title><url>http://www.okcupid.com/home</url></story>