mgraybosch
Joined 11 years ago
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Comment · 1 year ago
Being disagreed with is not the same as being censored. Harden your heart, make a virtue of defiance, and speak your truth.
Comment · 1 year ago
If you want to speak freely, don't expect to do it on somebody else's platform. Even if you aren't subject to censorship at the hands of the admins or moderators, you might still run afoul of the prevailing groupthink.
Here's what you should do if you're serious about free speech online: Start your own website. Run it under a pseudonym. Host it on Nearly Free Speech. Ignore all SEO advice, and disallow all crawlers in robots.txt. You might not get any human readers, but you aren't likely to get censored.
Otherwise, posting on 4chan is an option if you don't mind having racial or homophobic slurs hurled at you by poorly socialized adolescents who think too highly of themselves. And there's always Substack; if they can tolerate avowed neo-Nazis like Richard Spencer and white supremacists like Richard Hanania, they can probably tolerate you.
Just remember that if you frequent a Nazi bar like Substack or X, people will assume that you're a Nazi.
Comment · 1 year ago
Good for them. I hope all their demands are met.
Comment · 1 year ago
How is this new? I recall people talking about "personal branding" over twenty years ago. I disliked the notion then, and it hasn't grown on me over time.
Comment · 1 year ago
Yeah, Jesse Singal is to transgender people what Andy Ngo is to anti-fascist activists. They want to get their mendacious asses kicked so that they can play the martyr. They're both assholes.
Comment · 1 year ago
> Neither does Singal.
The hell he doesn't.
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Jesse_Singal
Who should I believe? A wiki that links to sources to back its opinions, or some rando on HN?
Oh, and did you create this account just to reply to little old me? I'm flattered.
> He wrote some thoughtful and well-researched articles on medical malpractice
https://glaad.org/gap/jesse-singal/ suggests that his articles were biased, and used rare cases of trans kids who changed their minds while ignoring the vast majority of trans folk who did not regret transitioning.
> this mob descended on him with death threats and other abusive and violent vitriol
You mean the sort of abuse that many people online heap upon trans and autistic folks for fun? You'll have to pardon my lack of sympathy for somebody who, to my knowledge, has yet to have their door kicked down at zero dark thirty by a SWAT team at the behest of a transgender person's false report.
> Then again, then someone's entire world view rests on what is fundamentally a lie, perhaps it's not surprising to see such excessive reactions when reality is exposed. Not that this is any excuse of course.
As far as I'm concerned, this is basically anybody who believes in God, or that biological sex and gender are the same thing.
Comment · 1 year ago
Well, if it ain't a Nazi bar it's certainly the Hotel California. I'd happily delete my account if that were permitted, but it isn't, and I'm sure as hell not going to email the management and say "pretty please".
Comment · 1 year ago
Neither have I, but I don't talk shit about trans people for a living, either.
Comment · 1 year ago
Tolerance isn't a moral precept. It's a peace treaty. If you aren't willing to tolerate trans people, then why should they tolerate you?
Comment · 1 year ago
I think he's an asshole.
He's some kind of journalist, but from what I've read of him he seems like the sort of man who lives in unreasoning and unrelenting terror that the guy in the stall next to his might have a vagina instead of a penis. He's a minor hero to right-wingers because he feeds into their prejudices concerning transgender people.
Comment · 1 year ago
Bari Weiss is a right-wing grifter. Nothing she publishes in her "Free Press" should be trusted, and Substack is still a Nazi bar.
https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/substack-announcement-bari-we...
(All I want is a 'delete account' button. Every other forum has one. Even Facebook has one. There is no excuse for HN to not have one. I've had less trouble cancelling my Comcast account and quitting vi than I've had leaving this site.)