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I figure it's flagged for being - in current context - a shoddy smear and simplistic click-bait for folks who hate and fear Trump & Co. (I did the 1st Comment,
by bell-cot 2y ago
I figure it's flagged for being - in current context - a shoddy smear and simplistic click-bait for folks who hate and fear Trump & Co.
(I did the 1st Comment, and was really tempted to bash The Atlantic for that. Maybe if I had, the discussion could have been positive, and the article not flagged? But given the provocative title, I'd bet not.)
- thomassmith65 2y agoIt's hard to see how the same article, word for word, would seem like a shoddy smear if it had come out last year: it doesn't explicitly discuss current-day anything. In fact, a reader who is invested in current-day politics could mine it to support an argument either for or against Trump. And a reader who is of two minds about Trump, could read the article to form their own opinion. There are many political articles that don't belong on HN but this particular one isn't polemical or ideological enough, imo, to warrant pissing anyone off.