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News like "a child dying from a rare form of cancer is deported" only got popular (including on HN) during Trump's latest term.

• wat10000 6mo ago
  Was it “got deported”? Or was it “got deported despite being a citizen,” or “was arrested and held in a prison without necessary medical care”?
  • lovich 6mo ago
    Or my favorite “deported despite court order to not do so”
  • lostmsu 6mo ago
    The fact that you continue insinuating this demonstrates the point. A lot of people went nuts, sadly. Touched a few of my friends as well.
    • wat10000 6mo ago
      You didn’t answer my question.
      • lostmsu 6mo ago
        I didn't plan to. It demonstrates pretty well as-is how people stop thinking and acting critically when their biases are being confirmed, and the trend on HN demonstrates how widespread this is. Well, either that, or the lack of critical thinking in the first place.
        • wat10000 6mo ago
          That’s your right, obviously. But it’s too bad, because I have no idea if you think it’s a good demonstration because these things didn’t happen, or they did but they also happened under Obama, or they’re new but don’t matter, or what.