"It's just facts" is the defense most beloved of trolls, but it's a fallacy. I recently wrote about this in a comment about something else (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23284949). Here's the relevant bit:
Ditto for the oldie-but-goodie, "It's a fact. What problem can you possibly have with facts?" - as if a fact were a fish that catches itself and serves itself for dinner. There are infinitely many facts and they don't select themselves, as I often tell HN users who make this argument: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu.... Sure it's a fact—and language has multiple levels of meaning. It's common to attack on one level and then switch to another level to defend. It's never just a fact. What the fact is being used for, and what other facts are left out, are just as relevant.
The uncomfortable fact is Zurkerburg appears to be trying to make allies of people that normal Jewish people find really really queasy. And it not trolling to bring that up.
Especially as a response to an article discussing both Zurkerberg and that person.
so out of a billion true things in the world, you just randomly chose this one? What does it show, other than one person might have done the wrong thing?
