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Note: this website often contains highly unreliable material and often publishes articles defending such things as the Berlin Wall.
by hrdwdmrbl 4y ago
Note: this website often contains highly unreliable material and often publishes articles defending such things as the Berlin Wall.
- andrepd 4y agoYes, imagine a website publishing opinion pieces with diverse viewpoints, some of which you find repulsive... I fail to see how that is relevant for this particular article.
- skeeter2020 4y agoBecause it's not presented as an opinion from a single viewpoint but as news, which we expect (perhaps naively) to be balanced and have multiple viewpoints. That's the failure.
- chrislo 4y agoOn the About Us page: > Jacobin is a leading voice of the American left, offering socialist perspectives on politics, economics, and culture. https://jacobin.com/about https://jacobin.com/about
- ETH_start 4y agoThe founder of the magazine defended the Berlin Wall and the killing of the surrendered Romanov children.
- wittycardio 4y agoKilling the Romanov children makes a lot of sense if you're trying to end a regime whose legitimacy is passed down by blood
- andrepd 4y agoI for one am glad that freedom of speech exists (in practice as well as theory) and that people can express those two opinions, one of which I agree with and the other which I don't :)
- ETH_start 4y agoOh yes. They have a right to express themselves and I have a right to point out that they sold out their humanity.
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- hrdwdmrbl 4y agoI just put a note. It's good to know what you're clicking on when you might not have heard of the website before. It provides something called "context".
- dang 4y agoOn HN, we go by article quality, not site quality: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&sort=byDate&type=comment&query=%22article%20quality%22%20%22site%20quality%22%20by:dang https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so... This is just a general answer—I haven't looked at this particular article.