[cemerick]

The story contradicts what so many here took as a given, that Lee was a victim of stochastic violence in SF. The highlighting is in revealing that so many were wrong in applying their biases to the original news, and then using that to leverage into e.g. condemnations of the city in general.

[brookst]

I mean we all know the reality was that people who don’t like the very liberal politics of SF were reasoning backwards to get to the “liberal politics causes murder” confirmation they crave. I don’t think anyone even pretended that condemnation of the city was a new conclusion for them.

[qup]

Sure. From my point of view, that means you can say "can't use Bob Lee as evidence of the rampant violence".

It doesn't mean you can say "You're wrong, there isn't rampant violence because this incident had a back-story"

Again, I haven't visited.

[hhgf5yhbd]

Saying stochastic instead of random doesn't make you seem smart, just pretentious

[dang]

Please don't create accounts to break HN's rules with.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html