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The Clintons Had Slaves
- RodericDay 9y agoPreempting the question "what is the relevance to hackernews?" -- Outside of the fact that politics is always important for everything, this is crucially about a "hack" in the 13th amendment, that allowed a backdoor so that slavery could continue, ostensibly "smoothed out", rather than a true abolishment as often portrayed.
- Mz 9y agoThere is absolutely no need to justify it. This article happens to mention a piece that was strongly upvoted and discussed at length just over three weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14350059 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14350059 The guidelines for Hacker News indicate that anything basically intellectually interesting can potentially qualify, though the relevance of "politics" becomes a thorny issue that gets argued about. There seems to be no clear cut definition for what is too political here to be on topic. My suspicion is that it has a lot to do with framing. The framing of this piece may not go over well due to coming across like the whole point is to slam the Clintons. But I am reading it and finding it interesting. I recently wrote about my negative opinions of prison in America today and this fits nicely with that. http://micheleincalifornia.blogspot.com/2017/06/prison-food-in-land-of-sleaze-and-home.html http://micheleincalifornia.blogspot.com/2017/06/prison-food-...