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Your comment is full of emotionally sensational discourse, and very short on data or sources to support it. Furthermore, you attack a fellow HNer (@cup) and br

Your comment is full of emotionally sensational discourse, and very short on data or sources to support it. Furthermore, you attack a fellow HNer (@cup) and brand him a "Nazi" for sharing sensible argument, instead of addressing the points he makes. The recent discussions around Turkey on HN, and the fact that comments like yours are getting upvoted, speaks heaps of the direction this site is heading towards.

muhuk 13y ago
He didn't brand @cup as a Nazi. He is talking about events like this: https://twitter.com/__VLKN__/status/341430566362697730/photo/1 https://twitter.com/__VLKN__/status/341430566362697730/photo... Oversimplified translations is; AKP members are given police uniforms to go beat up protesters. Please watch some of these videos: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5812290 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5812290
- qubitsam 13y ago
  > Oversimplified translations is; AKP members are given police uniforms to go beat up protesters. And I'm supposed to take this at face value, without this being corroborated by different news outlets? For all I know, the people from both sides of this matter are trying to social engineer me into being on their side. I am not on either's side.
  - muhuk 13y ago
    I am not asking you to believe its authenticity. I was just pointing out to an example of the events he was referring to when he said Nazi. You said he called @cup a Nazi, that is not true.
  - ebiester 13y ago
    If the media had done their job and covered the protest when it started getting big, or when the tear gas started flowing, I'd understand. However, there was a near blackout for the first few DAYS of the protest and the only news was social media. I, too, have friends in Istanbul and have been given first hand accounts. The number of apolitical members of this protest are staggering. As a friend said, the generation was brought up to be apolitical after their parents had grown up in an over-politicized and protest-heavy culture that led to the coup and horror stories of abuse of political prisoners. (BTW, everyone I've talked to only decided to go out after the tear gassing had been started; the demonstration was in support of the demonstration rather than the original Gezi Parki protest.)

muhuk 13y ago

He didn't brand @cup as a Nazi. He is talking about events like this: https://twitter.com/__VLKN__/status/341430566362697730/photo/1 https://twitter.com/__VLKN__/status/341430566362697730/photo... Oversimplified translations is; AKP members are given police uniforms to go beat up protesters. Please watch some of these videos: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5812290 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5812290

qubitsam 13y ago
> Oversimplified translations is; AKP members are given police uniforms to go beat up protesters. And I'm supposed to take this at face value, without this being corroborated by different news outlets? For all I know, the people from both sides of this matter are trying to social engineer me into being on their side. I am not on either's side.
- muhuk 13y ago
  I am not asking you to believe its authenticity. I was just pointing out to an example of the events he was referring to when he said Nazi. You said he called @cup a Nazi, that is not true.
- ebiester 13y ago
  If the media had done their job and covered the protest when it started getting big, or when the tear gas started flowing, I'd understand. However, there was a near blackout for the first few DAYS of the protest and the only news was social media. I, too, have friends in Istanbul and have been given first hand accounts. The number of apolitical members of this protest are staggering. As a friend said, the generation was brought up to be apolitical after their parents had grown up in an over-politicized and protest-heavy culture that led to the coup and horror stories of abuse of political prisoners. (BTW, everyone I've talked to only decided to go out after the tear gassing had been started; the demonstration was in support of the demonstration rather than the original Gezi Parki protest.)