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>It’s amazing the mental somersaults one must do to justify the fact that “the West” can (and will) ignore the basic principles of democratic society if it harm
by nobody9999 6y ago
>It’s amazing the mental somersaults one must do to justify the fact that “the West” can (and will) ignore the basic principles of democratic society if it harms their security stance.
It's amazing the mental somersaults one must do to justify smearing half a billion people ("The West") based on one person's comment on HN.
I'm not necessarily agreeing with GP, but your broad brush in vilifying such a large group of individuals based on that seems to be really unfair and inappropriate.
- toyg 6y agoIt is pretty undeniable that subsequent Swedish, British, and US governments have been harassing Assange for 10 years now with nay a repercussion. Nobody lost their job, nobody lost an election. Same for Snowden, Manning, Winner, Kelly... It seems like our societies have become completely unable and unwilling to demand accountability, our rulers only ever fail upwards. So yeah, I’m using a broad brush because it’s very hard not to.
- austincheney 6y agoTrue or not this has nothing to do with the definition of journalism.
- toyg 6y agoConstantly restricting the definition of journalism down to "infotainment" is part of that process.
- austincheney 6y agoLikewise, imagining an unsupported definition to qualify a position that can only exist in an echo chamber is vapor.