[finite_jest]

> I have seen this disingenuous copy-paste objection show up in every thread on this topic on HN

To be fair, your comment is objectively more generic and closer to a "copy-paste objection" than the GP's.

I have no idea how the press were in nineteen umpties, but it seems clear to me that the reporting by Mother Jones is pretty biased, and they have their fair share of polemic-level opinion pieces.

Do you think they would cover the recent removal of To Kill A Mockingbird (which is ironically a book they do mention in the article) from the curriculum by a Washington school board [1] in the same way? I don't think so. I searched their website, and it looks like they haven't covered it at all.

[1]: https://www.newsweek.com/schools-drop-kill-mockingbird-requi...

[otterley]

“They didn’t complain about this other equally bad thing” is a weak argument and isn’t HN-caliber.

[finite_jest]

I think that is is an excellent and relevant example of press bias, which @legerdemain was commenting on.

Generic straw mans are not conducive to good faith arguments, HN or elsewhere.