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Comment by dang | Hacker News Reader

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> I would be more inclined to pay attention to the guidelines if those were not used to reinforce the site's obvious political biases

This is an illusion. Everyone with strong political passions feels like the site is "obviously" biased against them. Your counterparts on the opposing side of any battle are equally certain of this. This is a reliable phenomenon and seems to be a function of how political passions work. It's not an accurate reflection of either the community or the moderation, no matter how obvious it feels.

> My last comment before this one was 56 days ago.

I'm responding to the preponderance of guideline-breaking comments in your HN comment feed.

Re deletion: it looks like you emailed us 7 years ago. Since then a lot has changed; we still don't delete entire account histories but we can randomize the username and/or do other things.

> This is an illusion.

The search “site:https://news.ycombinator.com/front Qunanbaiuly” (major Kazakh author) yields no results.

The search “site:https://news.ycombinator.com/front Shevchenko” (major Ukrainian author) yields no results.

The search “site:https://news.ycombinator.com/front Gogol” (major Ukrainian author that russia tries to appropriate) yields 1 article about russian theater!

The search “site:https://news.ycombinator.com/front Taamsaare” (major Estonian author) yield no results.

But the search “site:https://news.ycombinator.com/front Dostoevsky” yields 5 results.

5 > 0. Not an illusion.

Russia is known for using Russification as a method of oppression and genocide [1]. Dostoyevsky’s views are also pretty well known and their existence is not a matter of partisan opinion. If you are talking about Dostoyevsky, you are talking about core beliefs of russian fascist thought [2].

By preventing criticism of this, you are not neutral. This is not a political or ideological issue. It is a moral, humanist issue. And you know that.

> ... but we can randomize the username and/or do other things.

Please do those things in my case.

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[1] - https://www.coe.int/en/web/portal/-/the-forcible-transfer-an...

[2] - https://war.ukraine.ua/articles/origins-of-rashism-ideology-...

Ok, I've randomized the username and closed the account.

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