Man, I'm glad I assumed good faith here. > smoke-screen Once burned twice shy eh. I agree, it can be hard to distinguish genuine issues and dog whistles from

Man, I'm glad I assumed good faith here. > smoke-screen Once burned twice shy eh. I agree, it can be hard to distinguish genuine issues and dog whistles from each other. > If your opinions are anywhere right of woke, you get banned straight up This was my bad. I did exaggerate a bit. The issue does bring out the worst in me. I still stand by the spirit of my point though. > what attitude or opinion crossed the line? My understanding is that reddit mods are not genius propagandists. So, their concerns revolve around banning anyone who steps on a set of predefined land mines. Past the shallow left good - right bad, there is an impression of India, Philippines, Brazil being run by 'strong-men ethno nationalists' who are all right-wing and bad. Any time that status quo is genuinely questioned, you step on a land mine. They particularly don't like the semantic lines between right & left being blurred. A couple of other land mines are : ( I single out left triggers, because that's what this community cares about. The right is often guilty of similar or worse things, but they do it with a kind of brazen selfishness that it doesn't seem as hypocritical) * how various far-left faces are pursuing the same 'american dream' they so heavily criticize. * If you point out that research on medical transition during puberty is lacking and a lot of gender-affirming models of treatment based in shaky science. * That a statistical majority of black people support increase in policing. A lot counter-intuitive statistical results among 'captive demographics' are triggers in general. * Criticisms of Islam in general. I won't extend this to Hindus = evil, but I feel like there is a general dislike towards Hinduism as a result as well. However, it is possible I am just more tuned into it. > substantive enough that someone could come and meaningfully disagree with you That is exactly why I got banned. The polite and well-spoken ingroup contrarian (IGW) is a rather dangerous breed. (see another one of my comments in the same thread about IGWs) > Anyway, thanks again. Hey, I'm glad this went in such a productive direction. I'm glad HN exists and the coercive civility of the platform is truly wonderful.