Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by abracos 213 days ago
For context: The website is called Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung. Rosa Luxemburg was a Polish and naturalised-German Marxist theorist and revolutionary. A very biased source
4 comments

Tot have a certain political angle does not imply a bias by definition
Everyone is biased by definition. Knowing in which direction someone drifts and how strong they move supports your media literacy.
I think the thing that bothers me in the comment is "very biased". If everything is biased, there is not a lot of point in pointing that out.
Absolutely, I flagged this post for this very reason. Far left or right websites are no place to get a reliable account of things.
It's so insane that communism always gets a pass. I feel for the victims of that insane ideology.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_killings_under_communist_...

> Estimates of individuals killed range from a low of 10–20 million to as high as 148 million.

Post a right-wing source, get flagged in minutes. Post literal Communist rhetoric, get to the front page with lots of excuses in between.
Politically colored ≠ biased
Bias - an inclination of temperament or outlook [1]

Politically colored = an inclination of outlook

[1] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bias