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0 pointshn_throwaway_992y ago0 comments

The thing that's so weird about that confirmation bias is that some folks held these inconsistent views even within a single HN comment.

There was a comment that was on that initial thread where the commenter said that they heard from "very well placed sources in the US Intelligence community this is probably a hit", and the commenter still went on to blame San Francisco for being a "crime ridden shithole". I responded with this, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35456746 , it was just bizarre to me.

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rajup2y ago

I don’t understand, is it that hard for both to be true?

hn_throwaway_99OP2y ago

That's not what the comment I was replying to was saying. It's possible for both to be true, but it's definitely cognitive dissonance to on one hand think "it was a hit" and then at the same time blame the general crime problems of San Francisco for Bob Lee's death.

That's what a lot of the replies here seem to be missing. Sure, I think SF has a pretty bad crime problem that needs to be addressed. What deserves opprobrium is all the tech elite who immediately spouted on Twitter and elsewhere that the government of SF had "blood on their hands", again specifically blaming SF government and SF's overall crime environment for Bob Lee's death.

tedunangst2y ago

If it was a hit, it would have happened anywhere, so why are they blaming SF specifically?

Jackpillar2y ago

The guy in his comment responded that murder is a regular occurrence in SF. This is just a lie.

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