[jerrylives]

>baseless accusation

He literally says this is "affirmative action" in regards to an African nation and calls the competency of a space program into question for no reason. That's not baseless, it's quite blatant really.

I don't want to discuss the ideas of morons. There needs to be a bar set if you want to have reasonable, meaningful conversations. Not every opinion or thought is worthy of discourse and some are actively harmful. I see more and more racist and otherwise trollish comments on HN everyday and frankly I'm sick of it.

[castis]

That post was downvoted and flagged, no need to further indulge that sort of thing either way.

[cderwin]

The commenter is quite clear that he or she is calling into question the competency of the Ghanaian space program because "its not even a new design, they literally just used the cubesat platform and launched it from United States."

Similarly, the connection between calling this article the space-race equivalent of "affirmative action" and the alleged racism of the author of the comment is unclear.

If you actually believe the author of the comment is a racist, you should make your case. The author's racism doesn't seem "blatant" to me, and presumably wouldn't to most of the hn community.

[forapurpose]

> presumably wouldn't to most of the hn community

I wouldn't try to speak for the rest of the community.

Using the term "affirmative action" in regard to an African nation has clear implications.