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Comment by asylteltine | Hacker News Reader

Wonder why this is getting downvoted. It’s just a statement of fact.

I can see how the slogans of the Houthis make them a less than sympathetic set of missileers. For example, it might be awkward for a person supportive of the Palestinian cause to be in goal alignment with a well funded group stating uncloseted hatred of Jews.

No more awkward than supporters of Israel having to cope with Israeli ministers suggesting nuking Gaza, or having to deal with the ACLU defending Nazis in court.

Every cause, even (sometimes especially) the righteous ones, has shitty people attached to it.

That’s not the same thing at all. Hamas and the like have an official, publicly available creed which explicitly calls for the extermination of Jews. You sure you want to put that on the same level as one minister suggesting something stupid? By that logic, you absolutely must put all of congress in one group because trump suggested something similar.

> You sure you want to put that on the same level as one minister suggesting something stupid?

Yes, I think a government cabinet minister saying "nuke Gaza" is quite scary.

For every one willing to say it out loud, there's usually more leaving it unsaid but supporting the sentiment.

Sure. Do you have a better theory for the downvotes and flag then?

Sure; it's just kinda off-topic. Tangential.

The organizational mission statement is off-topic?

Here? Yes.

We don’t quote Facebook’s motto in every article about them, either.

I for one was unfamiliar with the Houthi org’s credo and was rather shocked how antisemitic it sounds.

People here don’t quote the Facebook motto often, to be sure, but “move fast and break things” is quoted often as is the old Google one “don’t be evil.”

It doesn’t make sense that quoting the mission statement isn’t helpful information when there isn’t much about the Houthis posted here.

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