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If anyone wonders why I have a poor view of the HN community as a whole, this is exhibit-fucking-A.
As an example, the piece is clearly identified as an "interview." Presented as a dialogue between CASPAR SHALLER and MAGDA MALINOWSKA.
Poster lodges this comlaint: "I knew something was up when the author asked the subject"
Speculating on the journalistic quality of a far-right magazine on HN: "due diligence".
It's important to understand the standpoint of the magazine. If they're far-anything chances are most of the reporting is garbage. So what they ruled in their favor? It doesn't mean the journalistic integrity is worth actually wasting clock cycles heating your CPU.
It stopped being speculation at that point. And while you may argue the court got it wrong, you have the burden of proof there.
- courts generally require due diligence
- There's no way in hell Amazon didn't try to out-money her in terms of lawyers and they still lost
- winning a wrongful termination case isn't typically easy.
I’m not even saying the worker/organizer is completely beyond reproach, but the only other entity with anything to offer is amazon themselves whom have already obliterated anything resembling credibility on this topic. Amazon corporate could tell me the sky is blue above a union organizers head and I would want it verified.
That being said, the union organizer bit and "far left" magazine bit were uncalled for. If anything, being a union organozer would be further reason for Amazon firing them, and doesn't mean at all thwir accoubts are less believable.
"Very far left" relative to central north american mores, not so much elsewhere.