Ironically, it's the parent to that post that makes me think, "This is why I should give up Hacker News".
A post of the form "This must be biased, because my anecdote is X". Your specific experience is the most biased thing there can be.
I think they're trying to get at "deliberately altered for political ends", but with no basis for that statement. It feels like projection: "I know what I want the result to be therefore you must be deliberately saying the opposite".
To see it expressed so baldly like that really takes the wind out of my sails, regardless of the cogent and coherent reply.
A post of the form "This must be biased, because my anecdote is X". Your specific experience is the most biased thing there can be.
I think they're trying to get at "deliberately altered for political ends", but with no basis for that statement. It feels like projection: "I know what I want the result to be therefore you must be deliberately saying the opposite".
To see it expressed so baldly like that really takes the wind out of my sails, regardless of the cogent and coherent reply.