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Can someone explain why the parent post has been flagged?
by pipes 3y ago
Can someone explain why the parent post has been flagged?
- pvg 3y agoYes, it's mentioned in the site guidelines: Please don't pick the most provocative thing in an article or post to complain about in the thread. Find something interesting to respond to instead. The comment picks a word out, then claims the book is 'framed as' that (it's not) and then pirouettes to exactly the sort of culture flamewar rehearsed talking point it wrongly accuses the book of engaging in, complete with the URL barrage such comments often include. Absolutely none of it has anything to do with Islamic architecture's influence in Europe - the topic of the book. As a first comment, it successfully kills any chance we'd get an interesting thread. The people who flagged it were right and the people who vouched for it were mistaken.
- the_lego 3y ago[flagged]
- selimthegrim 3y agoDo you think predominantly Muslim ethnicities such as Bosnians or Albanians or Lipka/Crimean Tatars have a place in Europe then?
- the_lego 3y agoWhat does that have to do with allowing casual lies about history to go unchallenged? Let's say they do have a place - does that mean we have to whitewash the history of Muslim conquest? In other cases of descendants of invasions, they're made to call themselves 'settlers' and give land acknowledgments. The least we can do here is not tell lies.
- tptacek 3y agoNone of this has anything to do with the book.
- deleted 3y ago[deleted]
- pvg 3y agoAgain, none of this has anything to do with what the book is about. You picked a word or two and went on a tangent completely unrelated to the topic at hand. However, coming from a country that was directly in the path of Ottoman invasions Well, I come from a country that was part of the Ottoman empire for half a millennium. I don't feel it gives me license to poop in every forum I participate in. Should I have allowed the lie to proliferate, for the sake of the interesting discussion that might come about? You can't make up umbrage to derail discussions into your personal hobbyhorse discussions, at least not here or the place gets worse. It's one of the basic conventions of the site.
- pipes 3y agoGiven that the title of the book is provocative, I really don't see this the issue here.
- pvg 3y agoThe title of the book is not provocative and even if it was, the guideline is there precisely because it is an issue for a messageboard with HN's aspirations. If you think escalation of yelliness is good thing for a forum, that's fine but HN is not such a forum and explicitly doesn't work like that.