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What I find worrisome about this piece: 1. it at no point mentions what the fellow is actually alleged to have said. I'm sure I could find out with a few click
by undoware 6y ago
What I find worrisome about this piece:
1. it at no point mentions what the fellow is actually alleged to have said. I'm sure I could find out with a few clicks, but what's up with that?
2. This is mostly an anxiety-rant about an entire political movement-of-movements that, for the most part, has nothing to do with the specifics of this anecdotal case.
How is this front-page HN material? Sample size?? Connection with something other than ~feelings~ to leftist tendencies more generally? Like, IDK, this does not seem up to our normal burden-of-proof standards.
Not to put too fine a point on it, I think we are showing our bias, allowing mediocre content that we like here....for ~reasons~.... to bubble up without due scrutiny. Wisdom-of-crowds requires a wise crowd. I doubt ours here.
- robertlagrant 6y ago> it at no point mentions what the fellow is actually alleged to have said Did you not read the article? It has extensive quotes.
- unanswered 6y agoThis is HN, "don't read TFA" is rule #2.