[ohnoitsahuman]

Can confirm:

We're spinning up a local newspaper site that covers the crime, decay and the hope filled people that are correcting the problems. The local incumbent paper refuses to cover any of it.

Of course, this is considered right-wing.

[thinkingtoilet]

Perhaps it's considered right-wing not because of the topic, but the angle on which you cover the topic. In my experience, the most partisan people lack self-awareness about how partisan they are and your post sort of smells like that. Of course, I could be wrong.

[latchkey]

Their response to me below is equally baffling.

[latchkey]

> Of course, this is considered right-wing.

In what way? You stated something generic without really explaining it. For example, maybe at the end of all your articles you have an advertisement for Trump? That's effectively what this pink slime does.

[ohnoitsahuman]

Where were are, there are no trump-aligned politicians that have any chance of getting in office.

Usually we're highlighting a liberal who what's to fix things for the working class. As opposed to a leftist that wants to control things for the activist class.

[rbanffy]

> highlighting a liberal who what's to fix things for the working class. As opposed to a leftist that wants to control things for the activist class.

That, without more information, sounds VERY partisan to me. Painting the left as wanting control when some of their most salient policies are things like universal healthcare and higher taxes for billionaires, or getting more funding for schools in disadvantaged communities, or even making sure police does not disproportionately dispenses violence against specific communities seems disingenuous.

[sickofparadox]

This is, of course, ignoring other leftist policies more relevant to crime such as cashless bail, not prosecuting for "petty" crime, releasing multiple conviction violent criminals early, fighting against institutionalization for mentally ill homeless, and essentially ignoring nuisance crime. (Next comes the part where you say "these aren't leftist policies," as if I have conjured these up out of fiction.)

[stonogo]

"Universal health care" is a phrase that basically means "everyone is on medicare" by now and to a right-wing listener is synonymous with losing control of your health care decisions.

"Institutionalization" is a weird synonym for "imprisonment" to any left-wing listener, since those are the only "institutions" we put homeless people in, mentally ill or not.

This is the kind of bullshit fight that makes me miss the fairness doctrine in media. People still disagreed, but they at least focused on making their case instead of misrepresenting the other side. Now not only does the fight go on, it's full of shitty rhetorical tricks designed to appeal to emotions instead of any kind of actual policymaking. It's exhausting and I had hoped Hacker News to be a sanctuary from this.

[sickofparadox]

Institutionalization necessarily involves imprisonment, but should not be limited to just that, I don't know why you are considering this to be some rhetorical flourish. I am not misrepresenting anyone, nor am I playing word games. Homeless people are often experiencing chronic, severe mental health issues and should be put into a psych ward that helps them regain control of their lives. They will not do this on their own, so this is where the rest of society comes in, say "yes we do actually know better than you," and take them off the street.

[rbanffy]

> "Universal health care" is a phrase that basically means "everyone is on medicare" by now and to a right-wing listener is synonymous with losing control of your health care decisions.

I live in a country where there is universal healthcare and I still am in full control of my healthcare decisions - I can still see a private specialist, and I have private insurance on top of the public service precisely for things like that - and to have a private room in the hospital. This also causes the private insurance to be very cheap, because the risk it deals with is much smaller.

I too miss honest debate, and news focused on providing reliable information instead of just blindly listening to anyone who wants to have a platform.

[latchkey]

Good to here that no Trump aligned politicians have any chance.