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My apologies, will take a break from commenting as to better understand the guidelines. However, it would be great if there was higher tolerance for calling content such as this out. The article at hand and research behind it do nothing more but to perpetuate a false image of east europe being a monobloc of cultures, ethnicities, and genetic structures. Defending that while censoring critique is far from ideal.


The moderation point here is in no way "defending that", nor was this the issue with your comments. The issue is that when people get into the frame of "calling out", they're already usually over the line into flamewar. That has nothing to do with this particular topic, as the second link in my reply makes clear (as the topic of that previous flamewar was unrelated).

If you want to provide thoughtful critique, answering bad information with better information and bad arguments with better arguments, in a respectful and curious way, that's of course fine. If you call names, or take swipes, or post flamebait or high-dudgeon rhetoric, that's going to lead to getting moderated and/or penalized and/or eventually banned, regardless of the topic.


Thanks for clarifying, duly noted.


> perpetuate a false image of east europe being a monobloc of cultures

I don't really agree with that claim at all. It's pretty obvious the article is talking about the migration of Slavic people which was a relatively monolithic group at the time. Seems that you just pulled a few words from the article for the sake of outrage.




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