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by allenbrunson
5699 days ago
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You are showing no evidence that you heard what I said. This has nothing to do with my nationality, and a lot to do with this site's conventions. pg has worked really hard to keep news.yc from going down in flames, the way every other discussion site in the history of the internet has done, eventually. You are not the first person here to suspect that Assange may be falsely accused. If you'd put it that same way, like I just did, you would have likely generated some discussion on the topic. As it is, you merely said something inflammatory and inappropriate. A couple of weeks ago, this site featured a story about a woman who accused a man of groping her at ApacheCon. If there is a more loaded topic for discussion than that, I can't think of it. Yet this community managed to have a very civil discussion about it, due to those rules you are disparaging. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1875718 |
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I did acknowledge the potential quality issue, which is what you spent your message talking about. You didn't really address anything I said. I bet I guessed your nationality right, though, didn't I?
> You are not the first person here to suspect that Assange may be falsely accused.
As I said, I was the first one to hint at that quite likely possibility.
> a woman who accused a man of groping her at ApacheCon. If there is a more loaded topic for discussion than that, I can't think of it. Yet this community managed to have a very civil discussion about it, due to those rules you are disparaging.
That's nice, but what did you think the civil discussion might have devolved into? Hypersensitive overreacting about "assault"?
This Assange -story, on the other hand, is not only about alleged rape, but also about the place where conspiracy-theories and reality meet.