It's not self-righteous, it's personal. I'm black and I personally find it offensive.
And it's not easy to take a stand against it around here - more often than not, criticizing this sort of thing gets you a lot of anonymous downmods. I'm willing to say something about it, put my real name behind it, and take the downmods. That's fine.
As I said before, I'd much rather these things don't get posted at all on a site I go to for Hacker News, but if they're going to be posted, I'm going to make a comment about it. Staying quiet on it is the same as saying that it's acceptable to you. If others want to do that, fine, but there's no way I'm going to do that. Sorry.
And it's not easy to take a stand against it around here - more often than not, criticizing this sort of thing gets you a lot of anonymous downmods. I'm willing to say something about it, put my real name behind it, and take the downmods. That's fine.
As I said before, I'd much rather these things don't get posted at all on a site I go to for Hacker News, but if they're going to be posted, I'm going to make a comment about it. Staying quiet on it is the same as saying that it's acceptable to you. If others want to do that, fine, but there's no way I'm going to do that. Sorry.