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It sounds like you may not know who Harvey Milk is or what he did. Read up on him, it's interesting stuff. Really, though, why not just be honest about your in

It sounds like you may not know who Harvey Milk is or what he did. Read up on him, it's interesting stuff. Really, though, why not just be honest about your intentions? You're a bigot and you think gay rights activists should be reviled, but you're afraid to actually come out and say that, so instead you're coming up with a thin pretext and pretending that's the real reason you're opposed. But you're not fooling anyone, so why not be honest at least?

eropple 10y ago
> But you're not fooling anyone, so why not be honest at least? Oh, come on, you know the answer to that. =) It's the same reason that people like Moldbug never met a thesaurus they wouldn't adopt and raise like a child. But, unfortunately, cloaking oneself in borrowed dignity doesn't really work.
nashashmi 10y ago
Troll! No bigotry hear. You made me angry. I have a technical problem with this. It seems that this movement to recognize gay rights is being done too forcefully, too artificially, too weakly. There is a more graceful approach to this, but we are not making an effort to do it this way, either due to haste or due to fervor. You are right. I don't know a single thing about Milk other than what the article glosses over. And it is not fair to Milk, but I am not making an extra effort here, because I am not vested in this. I was hoping the other HNers would elaborate on who he was, and counter me. When things are done rashly, we weaken the entire entity this way. In this case, it was the honor of immortality via a ship, being given too hastily away for political reasons.
sctb 10y ago
> You're a bigot and you think gay rights activists should be reviled Personal attacks are also not OK on Hacker News.
- PhasmaFelis 10y ago
  That was a factual description, not a personal attack. Calling someone a Nazi because they support a political candidate I don't like is a personal attack. Calling someone a Nazi because they're wearing a swastika armband and seig-heiling is not.
  - dang 10y ago
    Please don't finesse this kind of thing here. A comment like "Really, though, why not just be honest about your intentions? You're a bigot" is uncivil by HN standards, regardless of how right you are.

eropple 10y ago

> But you're not fooling anyone, so why not be honest at least? Oh, come on, you know the answer to that. =) It's the same reason that people like Moldbug never met a thesaurus they wouldn't adopt and raise like a child. But, unfortunately, cloaking oneself in borrowed dignity doesn't really work.

nashashmi 10y ago

Troll! No bigotry hear. You made me angry. I have a technical problem with this. It seems that this movement to recognize gay rights is being done too forcefully, too artificially, too weakly. There is a more graceful approach to this, but we are not making an effort to do it this way, either due to haste or due to fervor. You are right. I don't know a single thing about Milk other than what the article glosses over. And it is not fair to Milk, but I am not making an extra effort here, because I am not vested in this. I was hoping the other HNers would elaborate on who he was, and counter me. When things are done rashly, we weaken the entire entity this way. In this case, it was the honor of immortality via a ship, being given too hastily away for political reasons.

sctb 10y ago

> You're a bigot and you think gay rights activists should be reviled Personal attacks are also not OK on Hacker News.

PhasmaFelis 10y ago
That was a factual description, not a personal attack. Calling someone a Nazi because they support a political candidate I don't like is a personal attack. Calling someone a Nazi because they're wearing a swastika armband and seig-heiling is not.
- dang 10y ago
  Please don't finesse this kind of thing here. A comment like "Really, though, why not just be honest about your intentions? You're a bigot" is uncivil by HN standards, regardless of how right you are.