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Comment by EdwardDiego | Hacker News Reader

All of this is just awful.

The posturing over it in America is terrible, it's not about you and your political tribes, but you're somehow making it about you, when people are dying. Did their statement cause deaths in the Levant? No, it's just posturing. Does this truck prevent any deaths in the Levant? More useless posturing, with an added element of incitement to violence against those who dare disagree with us.

Jesus wept.

I know the Evangelical Right has been making the State of Israel about them for years, their eschatology demands its existence, but when the political hacks are trying to link Ukraine and Hamas to score some imagined point, it's disgusting.

And your support of these tactics for the suppression of thoughtcrime, in the alleged land of the free, is both terrible and awful.

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So we shouldn’t have consequences for our actions? Are you saying I don’t understand forgiveness for mistakes? That is why I said the student groups that retracted their statements should be spared, but this is saying you should be able to run into a crowded theater and yell fire with no consequence.

Also like usual with the over reaction. This isn’t a thought crime. It’s simply amplifying their own hate speech. If they don’t like the attention so much maybe they shouldn’t be making such heinous statements. This is just the community reacting to something you are I guess are fine with. And good job trying to smear me instead of responding with facts!

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> That is why I said the student groups that retracted their statements should be spared

How would being spared work though? Would the truck run the route again with crossed over, corrected names? What if someone was doxxed by mistake, run an apology list truck?

So if I was a former member of the KKK and someone published that they are the bad guy?

But what if you weren't a member and someone published it, are they the bad guy? Can they "un-publish" it?

That’s not the case here. No mistake was made. And yes, typically you would issue a retraction or “unpublish” as you call it.

> No mistake was made.

The article in question disagrees with that.

> “... I’m even more appalled since many of them had nothing to do with the letter,” Furman wrote.

I guess they'll have to drive the truck backwards, and with mistaken names crossed out? And if anyone was affected the truck driver will personally vouch for them in an attempt to reverse the damages.

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