Comment by isr
dang, seriously. What is wrong with those posts you linked to. Please take a look at them yourself, and tell me. Genuinely asking.
Whenever I've engaged on this topic (not just this thread), there seems to be an unwritten rule somewhere that absolutely any vile stuff is acceptable, no matter how debunked by journalists, as long as it's on one particular side of this narrative. And any pushback is abused, downvoted, etc.
It seems almost impossible to present an anti-genocide case, on this site.
That can't be right.
Speaking for myself:
One is a personal attack: "we're living in 2 different realities", etc. HN's trigger for this is pretty light, and any time a comment verges onto "you" statements in an unflattering light this tends to be the case. I'm writing this comment carefully considering I pretty much have to use "you" and am considering how it might sound. As dang's explained many, many, many times in the past, how a comment is received is often orders of magnitude harsher than it is written. (I know he's expressed this many times, I can't remember how he phrases it or I'd link instances.)
The other is a nationalistic attack against "America's superior moral compass". Again, the trigger is lightly loaded, reason being that such comments tend to derail discussions.
(Not an HN mod, but I watch dang's mod comments closely and generally understand his reasoning, even where I disagree with it.)
You can make your points more substantively without those swipes. A recent example of my own:
<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41578060>
I addressed the factual aspects of the comment without taking the bait from others. Directly quoting a credible third-party report.