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That quote was literally from Cultural Revolution WP summary, so you may well heed your own advice and read it for once. My point was that any parallels betwee

by varjag 5y ago

That quote was literally from Cultural Revolution WP summary, so you may well heed your own advice and read it for once. My point was that any parallels between that and events in the USA are nothing but disingenuous exaggeration. Consider just how vague your allusions are: without knowing your political views I would be at loss figuring if you allude to the rise of proto-fascist American right or lament the assault of Left woke culture.

random314 5y ago
> That quote was literally from Cultural Revolution WP summary, I couldn't find the quoted passage in the Cultural Revolution WP as you mentioned.
- kragen 5y ago
  It's in the infobox in the right margin of the introduction to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_Revolution https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_Revolution. Why they thought it was relevant to the conversation is anybody's guess, but I guess people who don't know anything about a thing are likely to have a lot of random opinions about it. In my view, though, accusing others of dishonesty and hypocrisy because they disagree with one's random unfounded opinions is unacceptable. Last time I said that I got downvoted to -2 and flagged: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30118970 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30118970
kragen 5y ago
- varjag 5y ago
- laputan_machine 5y ago
  To me, his response to you was identically snarky as your response to him. I think you could both do with being a little kinder to each other
  - kragen 5y ago
    In the grandparent comment, he accuses me of lying and hypocrisy, neither of which is correct. The only thing I had accused him of is not knowing anything about the Cultural Revolution, which is obviously correct, since he had confused it with the Great Leap Forward. Ignorance is not immoral; it's the state we all start in, after all. So I do not agree that falsely accusing someone of lying and hypocrisy is "identically snarky as" correctly "accusing" someone of ignorance.

by varjag 5y ago

random314 5y ago

> That quote was literally from Cultural Revolution WP summary, I couldn't find the quoted passage in the Cultural Revolution WP as you mentioned.

kragen 5y ago
It's in the infobox in the right margin of the introduction to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_Revolution https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_Revolution. Why they thought it was relevant to the conversation is anybody's guess, but I guess people who don't know anything about a thing are likely to have a lot of random opinions about it. In my view, though, accusing others of dishonesty and hypocrisy because they disagree with one's random unfounded opinions is unacceptable. Last time I said that I got downvoted to -2 and flagged: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30118970 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30118970

kragen 5y ago

varjag 5y ago
laputan_machine 5y ago
To me, his response to you was identically snarky as your response to him. I think you could both do with being a little kinder to each other
- kragen 5y ago
  In the grandparent comment, he accuses me of lying and hypocrisy, neither of which is correct. The only thing I had accused him of is not knowing anything about the Cultural Revolution, which is obviously correct, since he had confused it with the Great Leap Forward. Ignorance is not immoral; it's the state we all start in, after all. So I do not agree that falsely accusing someone of lying and hypocrisy is "identically snarky as" correctly "accusing" someone of ignorance.