This is pretty neat and all, but seems more appropriate for a site like Reddit. Is there a discussion behind the scenes here that would make it HN worthy?
For educated Americans it is usually quite shocking to learn that this is one of the few places in the world that celebrate the fight against non-Western Imperialism by people who in America would be told to check their white privilege.
Some links for historical context, the place and people involved:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulgarian_Legion
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadji_Dimitar
Can you elaborate? The above sentence is difficult to parse, and I don't quite understand what is shocking about a Bulgarian uprising 150 years ago.
If you don't like that arrangement, then the implication is that you dislike the basic idea behind how Hacker News works. If you're OK with it, well, that means you should be OK with the possibility that other people might like things that you don't, and that will result in content you're not interested in at points where your tastes differ from those of the crowd.