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Re:A Brutal Inheritance by fapjacks on Monday June 10, 2019 @05:36PM (#20151132)
But if you can only fault the headline, then I don't think you read the article very thoroughly, because the writer explicitly states it was rape multiple times throughout the article. I'm not sure how you rationalize stating falsehood as any kind of "acceptable journalistic practice", but nothing else matters if the writer is making false claims. And if the cop-out is that this is "storytelling" and not "journalism" then it's a whole other issue of duplicity in publishing this clickbait with false information under the buzzfeednews.com URL. But I suppose this is the difference between Buzzfeed and legitimate journalism.
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Re:A Brutal Inheritance by gerbilly on Monday June 10, 2019 @07:15PM (#20151772)
> I'm not sure how you rationalize stating falsehood as any kind of "acceptable journalistic practice"

You're just being obtuse¹ now, it's such a reasonable inference given the circumstances that it's petty of you to place such a high burden of proof on the writer.

Also you're denying one other important piece of evidence in favour of rape. Why did the mother never speak about it?

If she had had a joyful affair with such high ranking member of society, wouldn't she be proud of it?

Why do I even bother...

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sealioning

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Re:A Brutal Inheritance by dang on Tuesday June 11, 2019 @10:01PM (#20161129)
Crossing into personal attack is not cool. We ban accounts that do that. Please don't.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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Re:A Brutal Inheritance by fapjacks on Thursday June 13, 2019 @01:19AM (#20172011)
I assure you it wasn't a personal attack anymore than gerbilly's "obtuse" comment (and again, giving that person the benefit of the doubt, as I have throughout this thread). You and I are definitely on different wavelengths, but ignoring for a moment that someone flagged multiple of my comments (and not making any assumptions about that), nothing approaching spite or malice went into this thread.
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Re:A Brutal Inheritance by gerbilly on Tuesday June 11, 2019 @02:14PM (#20158013)
No I'm not often surprised, but it is interesting to run across someone who thinks so differently from me.

In fact I've had a great deal of experience with a person exhibiting what seems like a similar cluster of behaviours.

Call it a kind of 'professional curiosity', which is why I kept the thread going past the point where any agreement seemed possible.

A poster here one said that "everyone thinks their experiences are normative". I suspect both of us are perhaps doing that.

I wish you well, and I don't mean to sound disparaging.

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