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Comment by drocer88 | Hacker News Reader

"Flagged".

We need to at least listen to opposing views. The sanctimonious silencing of non mainstream views is scary.

It's really annoying to me that Hacker News is the forum which I regard as having the highest bar for conversational civility, but sadly the community completely refuses to discuss anything besides tech news and startup cheerleading.

I cannot attest to that at all. A good portion of all highly voted submissions were against the rules in the last two weeks and not tech at all.

Not even just the submissions, these sort of articles end up in discussions that break majority of thr In Comments guidelines, shattering any illusions that HN is somehow superior to everywhere else on the internet.

IMO, I don't think the articles should neccesarily be flagged, as the rules seem kinda loosely interpreted on this stuff, but more of the comments should probably be flagged than get so.

Bluntly, if I wanted that, I'll go somewhere else. Speaking as a non-American, American politics already takes up far too much oxygen in every dang forum I participate in. I appreciate places where I can find respite.

And I say that while commenting on HN about an American political post because when I see them, I just can't frickin' help myself... sigh

To have an opposing view in 2020 is to risk being beaten. Advise keeping your head down and your mouth shut.

Giving equal opinions to those filled with hate has gotten us to this point.

From my Catholic perspective it is remarkable how well it tracks with heresy, for context: dissent from one point of the Magisterium makes one a heretic. Analogy being dissent from one point of the most recent iteration of liberalism makes one worthy of unpersonage / cancellable. Recent high profile target being JK Rowling discussed here a few days ago

Cancel culture in action.

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