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>newbostonpost Someone on r/boston constantly posts links to this garbage "news" source, everyone flags it as spam there, I'm going to flag it as spam here as

• charlesism 9y ago
  I think the author confuses reason with common sense anyways. They're not the same thing.
• Yetanfou 9y ago
  That's called 'shooting the messenger'. It is not a good idea for those who want to be open to different opinions, a fact which actually can be gleaned from the linked article. If, as you say, 'everyone flags it as spam' it would be good for 'everyone' to read the linked article. That does not mean you need to agree to everything written there, by all means disagree but do so on the base of reason.
  • owebmaster 9y ago
    Só you are open to neonazi or Black supremacy ideas too?
    • Yetanfou 9y ago
      How can you discuss neo-Nazism or black supremacy without knowing what those terms actually mean? Again, this is once of the themes of the linked article: placing labels is not the same as understanding an issue. Reading about subjects you disagree with makes you a more knowledgeable and possibly even wiser person. It does not make you into whatever it was you read about.
    • sctb 9y ago
      > Eschew flamebait. Don't introduce flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
• XFrequentist 9y ago
  That's... rather poor behaviour on your part, no?