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Please, please, please take this back to reddit.

• deleted 18y ago
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• daniel-cussen 18y ago
  Did you read it first? It was an awesome article. It isn't paranoid conspiracy-theory linkbait at all, despite what the title may imply. It's a retelling of the crimes and the ensuing trial of four African Americans who decide to use an obsolete legal defense that, once upon a time, legitimated chattel slavery to try to escape the death penalty. It's surreal. It may have themes in common with some very bad articles on reddit, but it is not one of them. It's a false positive. This belongs on Hacker News.
  • cellis 18y ago
    Yes, I read it first. It wasn't an awesome article: mostly just a depressing story about a few men who murdered someone and wanted to get away with it. Happens everyday. Its not surreal. Its definitely not hacker news.
    • davidw 18y ago
      I thought it was interesting, but completely unrelated to hacker news, as the really strained "6 degrees of hacker news" comments below demonstrate.