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lovelearningtoday at 5:48 AM0 repliesview on HN

Your expectations are unrealistic.

Every type of content will have some restrictions. Structural, ideological, financial.

Just about every type of written content on a platform has word limits imposed by its editors. Word limits restrict how much context can be provided in any single article.

Style guides, personal beliefs, management directives, and legal risks impose ideological and political restrictions. Even if an author is candid in the draft copy, reviewers and editors make them tone it down or tone it down themselves without asking the author.

Also doubtful whether a reputed university for elites like Yale will directly point fingers at the rightwing in power or at an elites' blueprint like Project 2025.

Personally, I think all these criticisms of this article are actually a form of centrist deflection and pretense. Centrists support rightwing policies but also don't want to come across as morally bad in such fora. So, to justify their centrism, they criticize the messengers through bikeshedding.