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A Selfie with a Serial Killer
- scarejunba 7y agoRight. So I assume we shouldn't judge someone on the basis of a photograph they've taken with someone else. Guilt by association and all that. Seems fair.
- taneq 7y agoYep, but in the heat of a witch-hunt you can bet that any such photograph will be weaponised.
- m12k 7y agoI'm kind of perplexed to find this at the top of the front page of Hacker News. It seems, if not entirely devoid of actual information, then pretty close. Is there some context I'm not aware of, that would explain its popularity?
- pushpop 7y agoPolitics is full of old photos (ab)used without appreciation of the context it was taken in.
- forkerenok 7y agoI think it's making a case against the "public outrage machine".
- gordon_freeman 7y agoI think the purpose is to bring attention to the kind of digital world we live in where we have so many digital images with others intentionally or unintentionally taken by us or others that may end up going viral someday causing harm to an individual’s reputation.
- michalu 7y agoYes you can't judge for acquaintance with someone who turns out to be an evil person. You can't know. My best friend I've lost contact with for a few years, went down the wrong path and ended up in jail ... what does it say about me? Sadly, it will always be an effective technique to take down your political opponents because of how our brain processes that information. It's also guaranteed to generate clicks for any journalist who takes the effort to find some dirt on a famous person. A downside of selfie and photo obsession culture we're living in now.
- lcall 7y agoFor someone inadvertently in a photo, even if they were in a bad association or activity: while I think that trust should be based only on behavior over time, I know that forgiveness is required of all of us, and what we are is more important than what we used to be. (To avoid overly long opinions, I wrote more about trust and forgiveness here, in hopefully a skimmable (a very simple site), for what it may be worth. It represents my collected notes and thinking from over a long time: http://lukecall.net/e-9223372036854602995.html http://lukecall.net/e-9223372036854602995.html )
- ppfrc 7y ago>Dig deeply through my historic tweets and you will find me interacting with people who - it later turned out out - were bigots, bots, and bastards. Wow—bigots, of all things!
- audiometry 7y agoThis is such bad writing. Zero payoff. It stopped being interesting by the end of the headline.
- pushpop 7y agoThe point it’s making is subtle put. Also its much easier to criticise someone else’s writing than it is to put yourself out there
- pja 7y agoIs this meant to be some commentary on the Prince Andrew thing?
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