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we're posting Cato Institute links now?
by dnsld 6y ago
we're posting Cato Institute links now?
- flybrand 6y agoGood point, YC should ban posts from there.
- Fumtumi 6y agoI was not aware of 'Cato' before but its amusing that an Philantropist is a Liberatist. Or if you think about it, of course you need much more Philantropists when you have Liberatism :D
- 082349872349872 6y agoTIL "As censor, [Cato] tried to save Rome's ancestral customs and combat "degenerate" Hellenistic influences." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cato_the_Elder https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cato_the_Elder
- dredmorbius 6y agoWrong Cato: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cato%27s_Letters#Influence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cato%27s_Letters#Influence
- morelisp 6y agoCato's leadership struggle in 2012 took it from a strongly-right-leaning but fundamentally intelligent and rational policy organization, to one step above the John Birch Society and a bare GOP stump organization. I don't care one way or another about banning, but yeah, people really should not put any weight into what comes out of it today.
- morelisp 6y agoI'm not complaining about the downvotes but given that my comment contains significant substance about the Cato Institute, I would appreciate more feedback. Are you downvoting because you think the leadership struggle in 2012 didn't affect it, or because you also think the JBS is a serious policy organization?
- yaakov34 6y agoI didn't downvote it (and I very rarely downvote anything other than spam), but your comment is precisely the sort of ad hominem dismissal that this thread is complaining about. A glance at the blogs on cato.org shows a pro-business editorial line which is perfectly well aligned with the chamber of commerce wing in both parties. It is very anti-Trumpian and somewhat anti-Biden. I am not a huge follower of the Cato Institute, but in my recollection, this is the same type of stuff that could be found there 20 years ago. Sometimes Cato has useful studies or data, and then it's worth reading. It's a moderate, academic, economics-colored point of view on the world. I wouldn't call it exciting, but this kind of complete dismissal in a thread about dismissal and silencing of moderate voices apparently looks silly to some people.
- akvadrako 6y agoI think it was an interesting factoid and I upvoted you, though a little more evidence would have been welcome. Though I do think their opinions may be skewed, I don't doubt the facts they are presenting in this article.
- aaronax 6y agoLet me guess, they don't align with "strong liberal" views so any controversial part of their past makes them cancel-able ("ban" as you say). I now feel like I will hesitate to submit a Cato article in the future, and I don't even know what is wrong with them! Basically exactly what the article discusses.
- brsg 6y agoTo be fair, HN does remove a ton of political posts. If they didn't, this tech forum would be overrun with irrelevant political discussion. Conservative think tanks posts can definitely stimulate good discussion, but if you don't moderate consistently, the community will eventually form a hivemind politically.
- sgift 6y agoThere are a ton of information available about the Cato institute online. If you "don't even know what is wrong with them", don't want to post about them and don't want to inform yourself that's on you.
- yeetawayhn 6y agohttps://thelogicofscience.com/2016/09/27/dont-tell-people-to-google-it-thats-your-job-not-theirs/ https://thelogicofscience.com/2016/09/27/dont-tell-people-to...