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Re:A Guide To Hacker News For People Who Aren’t Men (2018) by apocolyps6 on Monday June 29, 2020 @03:07PM (#23681235)
I'm not convinced that being true redeems any and every statement. For example you can lay out a case for eugenics unacceptable in almost any moderated forum while only making true statements.

As for the linguistic element in your question, "X is Y" in conversation typically means "X at large", allowing for some anomalies but otherwise making a statement about the whole group.

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Re:A Guide To Hacker News For People Who Aren’t Men (2018) by namshub on Tuesday June 30, 2020 @08:56AM (#23689523)
Selective ignorance is a dangerous strategy... Far better to evaluate the facts as fully as possible and find the actual reasons for and against. However a straightforward argument for eugenics is probably not very accurate or broad in its consideration. In that sense I guess it could be inaccurate or true but incomplete and/or misleading on its own.
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Re:A Guide To Hacker News For People Who Aren’t Men (2018) by tasuki on Wednesday July 01, 2020 @03:11AM (#23698657)
> I'm not convinced that being true redeems any and every statement.

What does that mean?

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