> I doubt an article like this will survive on HN. But I can't help hope that it will - it lays bare some of the "other side" that most people have no inkling o

> I doubt an article like this will survive on HN. But I can't help hope that it will - it lays bare some of the "other side" that most people have no inkling of. You must be joking. Hacker News is absolutely riddled with "other-side-ism" (whataboutism). To a ridiculous degree. Look at the comments on this recent submission, "Moscow police officers stop people, request their phones to read their messages"[0]. An incredible number of the comments are comparing the video to American policies like Stop and Frisk and TSA screening, or to London police searches. Even in the most absurd cases imaginable HN commenters love whataboutism because it's a way of signaling "I know a fact that's tangentially related to this". [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30578125 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30578125