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You being Iranian-american bares no weight on your opinion

• throwaway982323 7mo ago
  why should it not?
• tryauuum 7mo ago
  why?
• cheema33 7mo ago
  The idea is that criticism of Iran from an Iranian-American would have more merit. However, we have no way to confirm the validity of this claim. It could very well be someone pretending to be an Iranian-American.
• PsylentKnight 7mo ago
  You don't think someone from a country might know a bit more about it than the average person on HN?
• muzani 7mo ago
  In my experience, I find people who are "former ABC-ian" to actually be very heavily biased, if not outright lying about ABC. Mentally, I'd say it's worth less weight than someone with no information. They left because they were unhappy with things. The former British folks are enraged about human rights abuses and societal collapse in Britain. The ex-Christians will rarely praise the Bible. Not that there's zero weight, it's still a perspective to consider. But it has to be fact checked thoroughly.