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I WILL NOT MOURN THE QUEEN. I have never liked the queen or the British monarchy. To me they are the biggest symbol of oppression in history and set my people and continent several centuries back while they enriched themselves. Never an apology, never any reparations. So while i will not jump around and rejoice, I would be lying if I said I did not feel some happiness and relief at the news. And i think always will a…
I gotta admit that it is a bit weird to see british royalty being so heavily privileged that they even get special moderation treatment here on HN to protect them (?) from any negativity, or rather stop negativity about them. I'm not keen on the idea of using this submission to flame the Queen, I obviously agree with the general rule of avoiding flamebait, what I mean is that other HN submissions on the deaths of peo…
It wasn't really special moderation treatment, though I understand why it looks like that way now. It was because, when the thread was getting going, it flooded with crap comments (e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32769222 , https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32769043 ). I decided to come down hard on those to try to ward off a shitshow. It would have been the same in any thread that was filling up that wa…
As a long time lurker and infrequent poster, I am positively revolted by moderation's handling of this topic. Under the guise of "disallowing flamebait" HN's moderation team has systematically driven out anyone expressing negative opinions of an individual. At the start of this topic, there was a diversity of viewpoints[0] but now there is only trite, non-intellectually gratifying comments praising the queen or expre…
Those are still there, as you point out with your link. You mean that you are dissatisfied with the crowd's upvotes, not the site's moderation?
[0]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32769867
Imagine being groomed to do this job from birth, with no real way to opt out[1]. You wanted to breed horses, become a blacksmith or start a business? Get that nonsense out of your head, you're a princess! Then, when you're 25, your daddy dies aged only 56 and after a rather brief period of mourning you get pushed into taking his job in a pompous ceremony. Now you're going to be doing this until you die. No retirement…
I WILL NOT MOURN THE QUEEN. I have never liked the queen or the British monarchy. To me they are the biggest symbol of oppression in history and set my people and continent several centuries back while they enriched themselves. Never an apology, never any reparations. So while i will not jump around and rejoice, I would be lying if I said I did not feel some happiness and relief at the news. And i think always will a…
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I WILL NOT MOURN THE QUEEN. I have never liked the queen or the British monarchy. To me they are the biggest symbol of oppression in history and set my people and continent several centuries back while they enriched themselves. Never an apology, never any reparations. So while i will not jump around and rejoice, I would be lying if I said I did not feel some happiness and relief at the news. And i think always will a…
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I wonder how many of the Commonwealth Realms are going to retain their monarchies. We might see Canada, Australia, New Zealand (and the rest of them) becoming republics.
I am a republican i.e. very anti-monarchist but it is a historic moment and I feel sad for some reason. The end of an era. A constant throughout the postwar period in this country. Someone my gran loved too and looked up to, so I feel pretty sad as a Brit.
I WILL NOT MOURN THE QUEEN. I have never liked the queen or the British monarchy. To me they are the biggest symbol of oppression in history and set my people and continent several centuries back while they enriched themselves. Never an apology, never any reparations. So while i will not jump around and rejoice, I would be lying if I said I did not feel some happiness and relief at the news. And i think always will a…
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