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As Cardinal Richelieu apocryphally said"If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang hi

As Cardinal Richelieu apocryphally said"If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him." I dont doubt you can present a similar set of "warnings" for any undesirable who refuse to toe the corporate line you are ordered and paid to maintain. All those rules are ambiguous, opaque, arbitrary and subjectively interpreted and enforced, but you know that. The most ironic thing is that the measure you take with people who refuse to follow you faux-polite tone is censorship and virtual obliteration, something 1000 times worse. Most of the people I got personal (in argument) here were being racist/clasist/homophobic/ethnocentric but since they can shield themselves behind rhetorical what ifs and sing paeans to the geniuses of YC they have carte-blanche. Give me a million times better the dysfunctional governments we all have before techno-fascists like you and your bosses, censoring anyone who does not suck up to them.

AussieWog93 5y ago
If you believe social justice is paramount and politeness is unimportant, there are plenty of forums online who will accept you with open arms. Of course, all of them are toxic, but perhaps that's the point.
dang 5y ago
Not to contradict the Cardinal but your accounts have broken the site guidelines a lot more than the median commenter, and we really don't care about your views. Plenty of other commenters express similar views without getting banned. Actually we really, really, don't care. We're just trying to have an internet forum that doesn't suck. It isn't about politeness, btw (let alone "faux" politeness) – you won't find that word, or that concept, in the site guidelines. It's about treating other people respectfully, and abstaining from garden-variety internet dreck. Let's not noble up the latter with self-flattering rhetoric.

AussieWog93 5y ago

If you believe social justice is paramount and politeness is unimportant, there are plenty of forums online who will accept you with open arms. Of course, all of them are toxic, but perhaps that's the point.

dang 5y ago

Not to contradict the Cardinal but your accounts have broken the site guidelines a lot more than the median commenter, and we really don't care about your views. Plenty of other commenters express similar views without getting banned. Actually we really, really, don't care. We're just trying to have an internet forum that doesn't suck. It isn't about politeness, btw (let alone "faux" politeness) – you won't find that word, or that concept, in the site guidelines. It's about treating other people respectfully, and abstaining from garden-variety internet dreck. Let's not noble up the latter with self-flattering rhetoric.