Having your real name attached to posts that are against certain political topics or narratives, can be borderline-lethal in 2020. He's scared, and rightfully so.
(https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23610435)
posted on June 23, 2020 07:03 AM by
u/sue_me_please
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White men posting on the internet are the most oppressed group in the
world today.
Having spent the last month interpreting current events as a direct
affront against themselves, the rationalists crack and are seeing
phantom SJWs in the shadows, waiting for the right opportunity to leap
out and stab them for reading The Bell Curve.
(And i dont even disagree with the idea that this stuff can be
dangerous, anybody semi-famous who sticks their neck out poltically
(which is what scott was doing) is running a risk. Hell even people just
on twitch are running a risk of being swatted. And then there always is
the risk of people stealing your identity to commit fraud. Dont take
anonymity on the internet too lightly just because it is a worry of
people you dislike).
E: Of course the idea that this is a sjw witchunt is just crazy.
With the removal of SSC from the internet I actually have forgotten all about it. ([Turns I was the acausalrobot god all along.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpK5qHQK1q4))
Ahoy Soyweiser! Nay bad but me wasn't convinced. Give this a sail:
> writing a scientific blog
Scientific...
Argghh. Me blood pressure...
(N' me dont even disagree wit' thar idea that dis stuff can be dangerous, anybody semi-famous who sticks their neck out poltically (which be what scott be doing) be running a risk. Hell even scallywags just on twitch be running a risk o' being swatted. N' then there always be thar risk o' scallywags stealing yer identity t' commit fraud. Dont take anonymity on thar series o' tubes too lightly just because it be a worry o' scallywags ye dislike).
This is such a bizarre mashup of Cornish, Scots and, for some reason, 20th century Jamaican, dialects that I’m inclined to leave it up as a museum piece
Nothing like hackers to propose a quick fix which makes things so much worse.
But hey the issue was closed. Boom another one for the productivity metrics.
White men posting on the internet are the most oppressed group in the world today.
Having spent the last month interpreting current events as a direct affront against themselves, the rationalists crack and are seeing phantom SJWs in the shadows, waiting for the right opportunity to leap out and stab them for reading The Bell Curve.
Really great thread filled with big brain opinions. The sky is falling and the hackers might just cancel their NY Times subscriptions over this injustice. His name was Scott Alexander.
Scientific…
Argghh. My blood pressure…
(And i dont even disagree with the idea that this stuff can be dangerous, anybody semi-famous who sticks their neck out poltically (which is what scott was doing) is running a risk. Hell even people just on twitch are running a risk of being swatted. And then there always is the risk of people stealing your identity to commit fraud. Dont take anonymity on the internet too lightly just because it is a worry of people you dislike).
E: Of course the idea that this is a sjw witchunt is just crazy.
To cope with the journalistic persecution, the hackers want journalists to be licensed, or are rejecting the entire idea of journalists altogether.
This, unironically.