@dang I think the title should be edited. The title of the article, "The empathy of Joseph Stalin", matches the content better than the subtitle, "Nothing is more dangerous than a well-read dictator".
Nothing is more dangerous than a well-read dictator
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Re: Nothing is more dangerous than a well-read dictator
#32Please don’t post unherd here - it’s a bunch of U.K. journalists who want to write for the telegraph but can’t because they’re not rich enough, and the majority is tedious far right talking points you could hear anyone in a crappy pub spout off about after a few drinks.
I don't know if this article is any good (I haven't read it) but in general we go by article quality here, not site quality. Past explanations:
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...
Re: Nothing is more dangerous than a well-read dictator
#33"Stalin, then, presents a challenge to anyone who claims a specific link between deep reading and the pursuit of ethical or social virtue."
I think that only people who lived very sheltered lives would make such a claim.
Somehow, I am reminded of this from "Apocalypse Now":
"We went into a camp to inoculate the children. We left the camp after we had inoculated the children for polio, and this old man came running after us and he was crying ... We went back there and they had come and hacked off every inoculated arm. There they were in a pile ... a pile of little arms. And I remember I cried. I wept like some grandmother. I wanted to tear my teeth out. I didn't know what I wanted to do. ... And I thought my God, the genius of that. The genius. The will to do that. Perfect, genuine, complete, crystalline, pure. And then I realised they were stronger than we. These men who fought with their hearts, who had families, who had children, who were filled with love, but they had the strength to do that."
Re: Nothing is more dangerous than a well-read dictator
#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
It is like saying: don't post from internet here--it is full of garbage/trolls (it is true but irrelevant unless your point that all articles are garbage or all users are trolls). The cancel culture is cancerous.
I’m just hearing Charlie Brown teacher muah muah muah noises here, what did you say? Let’s just have no moderation at all then - HN for people who believe in the market of ideas (that’s what you lot like calling it, right? Some nerd shit like that)
I don't see how the mere presence of the moderator makes him woke. Avoiding identity politics doesn't mean that garbage content shouldn't be taken out.