williamgrant

HN has truly been scraping the bottom of the barrel for news sources this week. Please, continue posting news articles unrelated to HN from single-issue, hyper-partisan news publications.

I second this! Sabah, Serawak and just about the entirety of MY is on my travel itinerary post-covid. I did not appreciate the country nearly enough when I lived there a few years ago.

> Instead, you have a situation where the police to abandon a precinct all at once and not long after, far-right groups start showing up at night to stoke violence.

Do you have any references to support that? It flies in the face of everything I've observed so far but in all sincerely, given the extreme polarisation in how these events are being reported by seemingly all parties, I'd not be at all surprised to find I've missed something important and would appreciate a source to clear things up for me.

The referendum certainly gave a voice to a demographic of nationalists, amongst them some quite insidious people, that's absolutely true.

However, it's simply incorrect to characterise the larger Brexit demographic as people who, majority living in the most deprived areas in the UK, voted for anything other than naive or misguided assumptions about the economic impact of EU membership.

It seems to be a fundamental political platform for all parties these days to dehumanise opponents over practicing the slightest bit of empathy.

> The UK voted to keep Europeans from coming over here and taking our jobs and our women with their sophisticated accents.

This comment expresses an appalling amount of xenophobia and classism. This warped, cartoonish portrayal of "Brexit" voters on HN is not unexpected, but it is disappointing it seems to escape moderation.

Thanks for posting this, I had not previously read the declarations.

Of course it's not about picking political sides. I certainly did not intend to do so, if that's the impression you have taken. The sentiment is universally contemptible.

> You certainly won't hear it from any left-leaning MPs or in Labour constituency meetings. And if that weren't true, recordings would be all over the media.

I didn't/wouldn' claim we would hear it from left-leaning MPs.

> It is a common sentiment there that the only good Democrat is a dead one.

A similar sentiment is commonly expressed by far left individuals and groups on Twitter, Facebook and other mediums.

"the only good Tory is a dead Tory" has been the popular refrain for decades.

It's depressing these sentiments are carelessly amplified and approved by so many.

Edit: Apparently this has caused a stir. I encourage others to not read into this comment anything but disdain for the kind of discourse where "the one good BLANK is a dead BLANK" is accepted.

> Don't use slang, especially if it could be considered cultural appropriation, such as spirit animal

Yes, please do omit slang terms and inappropriate phrasing from official documentation. Still, I'd like to request someone explain how cultural appropriation fits in here? Cultural appropriation seems like a poisonous concept.