HN lore: a news submission that gets flagged is removed from the listing of posts on HN and basically hidden.
It’s interesting because there are a bunch of comments basically agreeing with the statements re Palestine and against a genocide, and of course that means it gets flagged.
Bonus: casual Irish racism - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37976176
Given Irish history, and this person’s Irish origin, I can understand how, in an unguarded and possibly reflexive moment, he could see this as merely support for a smaller, inferior, insurgent force against a larger, militarily superior occupying force, as this can be argued to loosely parallel Irish 20C history involving Britain.
At the same time, I’m surprised because this person organized a cosmopolitan gathering, and it seems likely that he would have adopted a more cosmopolitan and sensitive attitude.
I suppose the old adage is true, “The tree may leave the forest, but its roots are still in the soil.”
if there’s one thing that’s consistent about HN it’s their ability to have the most dogshit take imaginable.
I like to see them wrestle with wanting to be contrarian, “independent thinkers”, and defenders of
while also parroting US state department talking points about every world conflict