Maybe should not but as long as I can remember we have. Individual terrorists have always had a bit of a following on here. The unabomber has always been popul

Maybe should not but as long as I can remember we have. Individual terrorists have always had a bit of a following on here. The unabomber has always been popular here, I saw his manifesto mentioned as recommend reading several times over the years. When he died the comments were initially neutral-to-positive, some even openly admiring. Sentiment shifted but is still very very far from consensus condemnation. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36272409 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36272409 When israel booby trapped pagers and detonated them in public places, injuring thousands of civilians, HN came out overwhelmingly in favor of this attack. There is certainly some quibbling in the comments about the precise definition of "terrorism" vs "war crime" and people did fight against the consensus. But again it is extremely striking how favorably those actions were viewed here vs in less america- and tech-centric venues. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41567299 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41567299 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41580205 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41580205 Anyway just a couple of recent examples. I don't think this is a good thing, but for better or worse this is a place where quite a lot of people support (some) terrorists.