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The story contradicts what so many here took as a given, that Lee was a victim of stochastic violence in SF. The highlighting is in revealing that so many were
by cemerick 3y ago
The story contradicts what so many here took as a given, that Lee was a victim of stochastic violence in SF. The highlighting is in revealing that so many were wrong in applying their biases to the original news, and then using that to leverage into e.g. condemnations of the city in general.
- brookst 3y agoI mean we all know the reality was that people who don’t like the very liberal politics of SF were reasoning backwards to get to the “liberal politics causes murder” confirmation they crave. I don’t think anyone even pretended that condemnation of the city was a new conclusion for them.
- hhgf5yhbd 3y agoSaying stochastic instead of random doesn't make you seem smart, just pretentious
- dang 3y agoPlease don't create accounts to break HN's rules with. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- qup 3y agoSure. From my point of view, that means you can say "can't use Bob Lee as evidence of the rampant violence". It doesn't mean you can say "You're wrong, there isn't rampant violence because this incident had a back-story" Again, I haven't visited.