This is why the conversation is nearly impossible, even on hn. It's hard to find enough people who agree on which facts are objectively true in order to have the discussion.
Things end up stuck in endless loops of the loudest voices claiming that either "any criticism at all of Israel, no matter what it does, is antisemitic" or "no criticism of Israel is ever antisemitic unless it explicitly and directly refers to Judaism."
Ironically, I've observed many of the former have trouble understanding that racism can exist without using a racial slur, while many of the latter can easily write a 1000 word essay about dog whistles and implicit bias against groups other than Jews.
The title should be The Forgotten Technology. It got cut off in submission.
Thank goodness for the Internet Archive. Wallington's site is defunct. This is such s great site, and I'm sure some of you may remember it from years ago.
If someone made an off topic comment about China or Obama or whatever, I'd suspect their motivations on those too.
It doesn't mean that every criticism of Obama or China is necessarily racist, but boy is it hard to read goodwill in comments where that sort of thing is irrelevant.
