In other words: by perpetuating an unrelenting campaign of harassment and sea-lioning, reactionary defenders of the status quo have successfully convinced you that these topics are "controversial" rather than convincing you that they're assholes.
This is the argument to moderation, a popular logical fallacy in the cable news industry. This is the problem with HN; it positions itself as "disrupting" things, of doing these radical improvements using technology, but in reality it is a gigantic performance art piece about capitulating to entrenched power structures.
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Date: 2014-11-01 12:33 am (UTC)This is the argument to moderation, a popular logical fallacy in the cable news industry. This is the problem with HN; it positions itself as "disrupting" things, of doing these radical improvements using technology, but in reality it is a gigantic performance art piece about capitulating to entrenched power structures.