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This post is not only off topic but abusive.

We've asked you several times to stop posting flamewar comments and political battle comments to HN. I don't want to ban you, because you've been here a long time and have also posted good comments, but if you keep ignoring these requests, we won't have much choice.

If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.

p.s. Threads are especially sensitive to initial conditions, so posting flamebait as the first comment is especially bad.

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vetinari 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

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dang 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

I don't agree. It's an interesting historical story, and historical material has always been welcome on HN. There's much to be intellectually curious about there, and no need to be provoked onto an ideological track.

For those who do feel provoked, the appropriate response is (1) not to comment, and (2) to look elsewhere for things that do gratify your intellectual curiosity. There are 29 other threads on the front page, and hundreds more within a single click.

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marxisttemp 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

What political agenda is the OP pushing? Please be specific.

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vetinari 2 days ago | parent [-]

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	▲	pvg 2 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		You still need to explain what's wrong with this article for anyone to understand what your objection is. Otherwise the whole thing turns into advocacy for a kind of 'snowflake's veto' on anything someone might dislike or be uninterested in.
	▲	HeatrayEnjoyer 2 days ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		The only political "agenda" I see it's sharing is a narrative that wasn't possible to share at the time due to the horror of slavery.
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stonesthrowaway 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

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	▲	dang 2 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		It does apply to articles, but classifying this one as "ideological or political battle" is quite excessive. I thought it was intellectually interesting, quite apart from current political affairs, and I'm sure a lot of other readers will as well. They should be allowed to discuss the article in an intellectually curious way [1], without getting drowned out by other people's political reflexes [2]. [1] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor... [2] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...
	▲	tolerance 2 days ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		What about this particular article makes it flamebait or narrative-pushing? It's a feature for the art section and far as NYT articles go...mild.
	▲	oooyay 2 days ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		How is a story that tells the story of someone who was a slave and the brother of a famous American author "flamebait", "political", or "ideological"? Frankly, take a look at the juxtaposition of your comment to the GP. They're insinuating even printing this story is somehow the mission of American Democrats - more directly that American Democrats are responsible for printing the story of international slaves. If that were even remotely true then that's absolutely shameful. The world had slaves for a long time across multitudes of generations, societies, and cultures. We should know their history lest we be damned to repeat it.
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	▲	qazwse_ 2 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		What about the article is flamebait?