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Because HN tend to be on the left, like CNN.
by Pakdef 4y ago
Because HN tend to be on the left, like CNN.
- mlindner 4y agoI'm right-leaning but CNN is not universally bad. You should be paying attention to who the writer is more than what platform it's published on. Full hatred of one news website versus another is as absurd as complete allegiance to a single political party no matter what they do. Fox News and CNN are both legitimate news sites. Also since when is being anti-China a US political party issue? Last I checked it was one of the few things with broad agreement among US political parties.
- closewith 4y agoThis seems like an absurd claim to me (as a Western European social democrat). The comments on Hacker News skew very far to the right on everything from fiscal policy to taxation to gun rights to employment rights to unions to data protection to corporate regulation. The only areas where HN could be considered centrist is the hot-button social issues in the States like LGBT+ or abortion rights. Certainly not left-leaning, anyway.
- qzx_pierri 4y agoThe site is definitely filled with left leaning individuals. I think the only reason why HN is not more blatantly left leaning (like Twitter, reddit) is because the average HN poster works in tech and likely makes a lot of cash. I know I definitely got a lot less radical in my liberal beliefs once I jumped up a couple tax brackets after college. Other sites like reddit are filled with left leaning individuals from all walks of life. It's easier for a barista living barely above the poverty line to have more far left beliefs out of pure resentment for the structures that allowed them to go $150k into debt after majoring in something like Eastern Gender Studies.