In Pursuit of Clancy Sigal (2021)

dang · 2025-12-22T20:21:12.000Z

Discussion: In Pursuit of Clancy Sigal (2021)

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dang

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tjosv

15 days ago

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There are about 17 instances of left wing mentioned in this article. If you want something novel, replace each instance with right wing instead. See how you feel. I shouldn’t need to remind you that the author of a Yale review piece (passed away 2022) was Jewish. That much, I hope, should be obvious.

Enjoy, and happy holidays!

kayo_20211030

15 days ago

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> replace each instance with right wing instead

and what would that give you? Some ahistorical analog, I suppose. It's seems more like historical memoir than propaganda - a sign of different times. Honestly, I don't know what to do with the jewish reference. I'm sure you mean something in particular, but I'm not sure what it is you mean.

dangAuthor

15 days ago

I appreciate your attempt to make actual conversation out of that comment but this is probably better classified as a please-don't-feed-the-trolls occasion. Or, as the HN guidelines put it:

"Don't feed egregious comments by replying; flag them instead."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

tclancy

15 days ago

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What are you on about / go away. This isn’t a place for truth bombs generated by CTRL+F and not much else.

dangAuthor

15 days ago

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Whoa, I agree that the parent was a bad comment that missed everything interesting thing about the article (of which there must be at least a hundred, which is why I submitted it), but please don't respond to a bad comment by breaking the site guidelines yourself, and certainly not be crossing into personal attack. It only makes things worse.

(That said, I also feel like you deserve a clancy exemption in this case.)

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

tclancy

15 days ago

Thanks for the reminder dang and yes, I was agitated because I thought it was the pursuit of the Clancy Sigil and I was wondering how any of you know about it when we have worked so hard to keep it hidden!

kayo_20211030

15 days ago

Gosh. This is such a really well-written piece, and honestly, about someone I don't know, but probably should.

cafard

15 days ago

Sigal published bits of reminiscence in (I think) The Atlantic about forty years ago. These did not include gossip about Lessing or Laing, rather were about making a living as a writer in the UK.

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