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Whenever one of these US/UK articles pops up, it's usually from a left-leaning angle, emphasising the left policies of these countries as the cause of all the g
by mseebach 13y ago
Whenever one of these US/UK articles pops up, it's usually from a left-leaning angle, emphasising the left policies of these countries as the cause of all the goodness there - so it's only natural that the counterpoint would be right-leaning.
> not a sign of total failure of a specific model.
It's not that it's a total failure, it's more that the scandinavian model isn't the utopia it's made out to be by its (mostly left leaning) proponents.
- subsystem 13y agoThe problem is that the counterpoint doesn't have very much to do with issue at hand. It's like a number of people read "Denmark" and thought "Let me tell you what is wrong with Denmark!". This is exactly the type of political discussions that should be avoided on HN, because when arguments are vague and with little relation to the article the quality of the discussion will suffer.
- mseebach 13y agoBringing Denmark up as a model country (as the OP does) is an inherently political statement. There is nothing "hack" about the BBC article. I agree this doesn't belong on HN, but one of the reasons politics on HN is so dangerous is that it's so easy to get dragged in - which I am clearly guilty of here.