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Everything in this post is factually correct, and it is presumably getting downvoted for ideological reasons.

• egberts1 5y ago
  his conclusion is merely asserting that all three claims are wrong after asserting in his opening that these 3 claims are true. which leads me to think he’s being purposely disingenuous.
• hnbad 5y ago
  The three users in question are at best parroting white supremacist demagoguery. Their comments still exist and are unflagged. Instead of dealing with them, HN (either a number of users or one of its moderators) has decided that the problem is the article, not the comments, and flagged that as, I presume, irrelevant and off-topic. We walk away from this patting ourselves on the back, congratulating each other for keeping out politics and embracing a diversity of opinion. Meanwhile users like these will continue injecting casual remarks and "inaccuracies" (like calling Democrat officials who stand by as the police enacts disproportionate violence on protestors and journalists "leftist" to suggest an allegiance that doesn't exist and contradicts what has actually happened) to slowly dismantle any notion of observable reality. You can tolerate these lies and allow them to spread and infect everything. Or you can call them out for what they are and prevent them from spreading. Time and again HN choses the former by citing the unscientific horseshoe "theory" and celebrating dispassion as "enlightened centrism". But why do I even bother elaborating. I don't need more than five letters to summarize my point.