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> If you happen to be the target of this hatred and violence, and feel it is an existential threat to your livelihood, you might believe that it is a good thing

> If you happen to be the target of this hatred and violence, and feel it is an existential threat to your livelihood, you might believe that it is a good thing to make it more difficult for those who are engaging in this behavior to enlarge their communities. I’m indeed being threatened by various hate groups (one of them actually tried, and almost succeeded, to kill an acquaintance), but strangely enough they are never removed by Google or any other big corporations. Worst, each time I voice any slight complain about them, I am the one being censored. Some of those groups are even sometimes getting official support by the GAFAM. This is a really odd and unfair world.

dependenttypes 6y ago
Which groups?
- savingsPossible 6y ago
  Does that matter? If op is lying, he or she is lying. But are some groups ok to threaten? Are some people ok to threaten?
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  - dependenttypes 6y ago
    It does matter because I would like to avoid said groups.
  - prepend 6y ago
    I think it matters because sadly I’m at the point where I need to evaluate the death threat for whether it is reasonable to fear from it. It’s really unfortunate when someone fears for their life and I don’t want that for anyone. However, lots of people fear for reasons that I don’t think are actually from threats of violence. I had a friend explain how they literally feared for their life. When trying to console them I learned that the thing that was making them afraid was a friend’s Facebook post about a restaurant that supported some Bible group. Their reasoning was that the Bible group was anti-gay, and they might end up killing them for being an ally of gay friends. Because of this they feared for their own life and wanted the friend to stop talking about it. Now of course, there are multiple lame things about Bible groups being jerks, but certainly nothing to make this person think their life was in danger or directly threatened. I’m not sure how to specifically help that person, but after several episodes like this, I don’t pay much attention to them when they say that they get death threats. Maybe I’m just jaded but lots of people talk about death threats and I’m sure they perceive them as such. But having the details of the threat helps to differentiate the really dangerous people trying to kill others from the plentitudes of people saying “DIAF” who aren’t trying to kill, just being jerks.

dependenttypes 6y ago

Which groups?

savingsPossible 6y ago
Does that matter? If op is lying, he or she is lying. But are some groups ok to threaten? Are some people ok to threaten?
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- dependenttypes 6y ago
  It does matter because I would like to avoid said groups.
- prepend 6y ago
  I think it matters because sadly I’m at the point where I need to evaluate the death threat for whether it is reasonable to fear from it. It’s really unfortunate when someone fears for their life and I don’t want that for anyone. However, lots of people fear for reasons that I don’t think are actually from threats of violence. I had a friend explain how they literally feared for their life. When trying to console them I learned that the thing that was making them afraid was a friend’s Facebook post about a restaurant that supported some Bible group. Their reasoning was that the Bible group was anti-gay, and they might end up killing them for being an ally of gay friends. Because of this they feared for their own life and wanted the friend to stop talking about it. Now of course, there are multiple lame things about Bible groups being jerks, but certainly nothing to make this person think their life was in danger or directly threatened. I’m not sure how to specifically help that person, but after several episodes like this, I don’t pay much attention to them when they say that they get death threats. Maybe I’m just jaded but lots of people talk about death threats and I’m sure they perceive them as such. But having the details of the threat helps to differentiate the really dangerous people trying to kill others from the plentitudes of people saying “DIAF” who aren’t trying to kill, just being jerks.