Mapping Ancient Rome
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Mapping Ancient Rome
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Re: Mapping Ancient Rome
#2This is an interesting review of a more interesting project to create a digital geospatial model of the Rome of recent antiquity.
It is mysterious why it has been published on an extremist website. It's like reading a article about the life and times of Goethe in Al Quaeda Monthly.
Re: Mapping Ancient Rome
#3This is an interesting review of a more interesting project to create a digital geospatial model of the Rome of recent antiquity. It is mysterious why it has been published on an extremist website. It's like reading a article about the life and times of Goethe in Al Quaeda Monthly .
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Re: Mapping Ancient Rome
#4This is an interesting review of a more interesting project to create a digital geospatial model of the Rome of recent antiquity. It is mysterious why it has been published on an extremist website. It's like reading a article about the life and times of Goethe in Al Quaeda Monthly .
extremist? Really? And especially to the level of comparing it with a literal terrorist organization. The hard right has its genuinely extremist, white supremacist and nationalist elements but to claim that a conservative affinity makes a site like this into an extremist page is absurdly self-righteous and hypocritical even. Might as well say the same about Huffpo or NPR. No? I never understood how leftist and heavily "progressive" ideas automatically get a free pass as being fundamentally correct even when they have a long history of friendliness towards very violent extremes of their own spectrum but even moderate conservatism is right on the creaking edge of being declared extreme no matter what.
Re: Mapping Ancient Rome
#5This is an interesting review of a more interesting project to create a digital geospatial model of the Rome of recent antiquity. It is mysterious why it has been published on an extremist website. It's like reading a article about the life and times of Goethe in Al Quaeda Monthly .
Is being a conservative consider being an extremist from your viewpoint?
Re: Mapping Ancient Rome
#6This is an interesting review of a more interesting project to create a digital geospatial model of the Rome of recent antiquity. It is mysterious why it has been published on an extremist website. It's like reading a article about the life and times of Goethe in Al Quaeda Monthly .
extremist? Really? And especially to the level of comparing it with a literal terrorist organization. The hard right has its genuinely extremist, white supremacist and nationalist elements but to claim that a conservative affinity makes a site like this into an extremist page is absurdly self-righteous and hypocritical even. Might as well say the same about Huffpo or NPR. No? I never understood how leftist and heavil…
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Re: Mapping Ancient Rome
#7This is an interesting review of a more interesting project to create a digital geospatial model of the Rome of recent antiquity. It is mysterious why it has been published on an extremist website. It's like reading a article about the life and times of Goethe in Al Quaeda Monthly .
Is being a conservative consider being an extremist from your viewpoint?
Isn't conservatism basically forcing people to not progress? Some might see that as a nearly violent act against their freedom. But really, what else is there to conservatism than "do not change"?
Re: Mapping Ancient Rome
#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
Is being a conservative consider being an extremist from your viewpoint?
Isn't conservatism basically forcing people to not progress? Some might see that as a nearly violent act against their freedom. But really, what else is there to conservatism than "do not change"?
>Isn't progressivism basically forcing people to change? Some might see that as a nearly violent act against their freedom. But really, what else is there to progressivism than "you must change"?
Does the above re-wording make the problem with your characterization more obvious? I hope that it is obvious that both "progressive" and "conservative" philosophies are qualified by necessary and persuasive reasons to do one thing or the other. You should not change the status quo unless there is a good reason to do so, changing things carries the risk of making the current situation worse. Obviously the reverse is also true, you should always critically assess the current status quo because it may not be working as intended or has outsized negative impact on certain groups/institutions and we should change it.
I think your sentence is needlessly inflammatory, you're essentially straw manning the idea of conservative when we should always do our best to assume good faith in hackernews commenters until proven otherwise.
Re: Mapping Ancient Rome
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
Is being a conservative consider being an extremist from your viewpoint?
Isn't conservatism basically forcing people to not progress? Some might see that as a nearly violent act against their freedom. But really, what else is there to conservatism than "do not change"?
>>forcing people to not progress
What?
Re: Mapping Ancient Rome
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
Is being a conservative consider being an extremist from your viewpoint?
Isn't conservatism basically forcing people to not progress? Some might see that as a nearly violent act against their freedom. But really, what else is there to conservatism than "do not change"?
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