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This kind of seething diatribe is what's wrong with HN.

• VLM 12y ago
  Because it provides rational experience based opposition to saccharine one sided propaganda? In an ideal world we'd need neither, but in a world exclusively made of extremes...
  • bduerst 12y ago
    Because it's hyperbolic generalizations about a group of people without statistics or data to back it up.
    • VLM 12y ago
      But the meta question "is that bad". For example if you want to learn geography, jus. the basic map in your head, you could do worse than "OK the rockies are the high point, and death valley is the low point and everything is in between". In isolation, a very one sided story about DV that doesn't even point out its an extreme rather than a norm would provoke some really weird ideas. So its of value to point out thats an extreme and here's the other extreme and have fun exploring the middle on your own.
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      • bduerst 12y ago
        Anecdotal fallacy. If a racist were to come on here and make hyperbolic generalizations about a group of people without data, they would also get called out on their bias. The fact that you are trying to worm your way into supporting it with hypotheticals shows that you are also ignorantly discriminatory. >"This kind of seething diatribe is what's wrong with HN."