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"This article challenges my beliefs, so I guess I'll flag it." Pathetic.
by fixxer 10y ago
"This article challenges my beliefs, so I guess I'll flag it."
Pathetic.
- 3131s 10y agoI do a search almost every day for "US", "Trump", "Obama", etc. because I am curious about what Hacker News thinks about the US political situation, yet I know that these discussions will be flagged instantly before I see them on the front page. It's really unfortunate because Hacker News is probably the most intelligent moderately-large online community I've ever found, and I'd like to both learn from others and share my own knowledge on these topics. I appreciate the mods, but I don't like the throw-their-hands-up response that these threads always become uncivil. Some topics are so important that they need to be discussed regardless, and the denizens of Hacker News are not just bystanders to these issues but instead are the highly intelligent and influential builders of these apparatuses that underlie modern society and facilitate the abuses of governments.