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Saudi prosecutors seek death penalty for academic over social media use

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Re: Saudi prosecutors seek death penalty for academic over social media use

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jacooper wrote: post #49
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> Sure, they just created Algebra, cameras, algorithms and many foundation of our modern world. What a coincidence for a society that hates modernity!

Algebra is what, 3,000 years old? That's your idea of modernity? Really?

> So you stayed in a region you unfathomably hate for 20 years for a job you could've done anywhere? And you didn't even pick rich countries either, starting to sound like someone who's just making stuff up.

You're putting words in my mouth. I enjoy teaching refugees and trying to convert them to atheism, I love the geographic and landscape here, and I love my queer/gay/liberal/artistic friends and family here. I just dislike the religion and the religious. I feel the exact same way about christianity, judaism and hinduism.

It's great being here. All my friends here are either expats or liberal beyaz turkular who work in entertainment, and feel the same way about Islam and religion as I do.

Re: Saudi prosecutors seek death penalty for academic over social media use

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Post by blhblah12345 »

jacooper wrote: post #49
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Oh, just caught this. If I said 20, it's a typo. I moved here at the end of '11. I spent my previous 10 years in Europe. I moved to Turkiye because I love the music here. Microtonal theory is fascinating, and as a percussionist, turkish and arabic drumming are second only to Indian. Hopefully we will move to Rajasthan in a few years after my wife and boyfriend retire.

Re: Saudi prosecutors seek death penalty for academic over social media use

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Post by dang »

blhblah12345 wrote: post #48
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>Worse for you, but better for its citizens, which is the whole point of Democracy. Of course, I meant "worse" from a Western liberal point-of-view, which I would think should be obvious here. My whole point there is that Western liberals seem to usually think that if people in oppressive regimes only had democratic governments, then they'd magically turn into countries like Norway. So they try installing democratic…

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We've banned this account for religious flamewar. Not cool. I posted a whole other thing at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34404876 but this is well over the line.

(And to answer a common objection, yes, the same rules apply regardless of religion.)

It's a pity because you obviously also have valuable contributions to make - e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34404614. But the damage caused by bombs is greater than the benefit offered by flowers, so we don't really have a choice.

If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future. They're here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

Re: Saudi prosecutors seek death penalty for academic over social media use

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Post by dang »

jacooper wrote: post #49
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Please don't respond to a bad comment by breaking the site guidelines yourself. That only makes everything worse.

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

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Post by jacooper »

dang wrote: post #54
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Please don't respond to a bad comment by breaking the site guidelines yourself. That only makes everything worse. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Sorry, didn't mean to. Can you highlight which site guideline I broke?

Re: Saudi prosecutors seek death penalty for academic over social media use

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Post by dang »

jacooper wrote: post #55
dang wrote: post #54

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Please don't respond to a bad comment by breaking the site guidelines yourself. That only makes everything worse. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Sorry, didn't mean to. Can you highlight which site guideline I broke?

"Eschew flamebait. Avoid generic tangents." ("Edit out swipes." (<-- "starting to sound like someone who's just making stuff up" definitely counts as a swipe)
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