but it's clearly not. it's a "call in the troops" brigading. I said essentially the same things here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24101407 https://news

but it's clearly not. it's a "call in the troops" brigading. I said essentially the same things here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24101407 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24101407 which was outside their thread of interest so it didn't go in the deep negatives. Same message, different parent, radically different results. So it's not good faith, it's some dumb bad faith psychological game. It's an Ash conformity test. I'm supposed to think "hrmm, maybe 'Chinaman is evil' race-baiting IS correct, look at all the people who think that!" Nope. Not happening. I know the scam. I know I'm not the crazy one, there's groups of racist internet lunatics that go around and do attacks like this ... that's why I dropped it. They can have their fun. I have other things to do with my time, but I'm retracting absolutely nothing. They can try to move that overton window somewhere else.