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Glad that's not what happened here. The best people were excommunicated and burned at the stake for their heretical views because they didn't purge the toxic fu

Glad that's not what happened here. The best people were excommunicated and burned at the stake for their heretical views because they didn't purge the toxic fundamentalists from the project.

bitwize 2y ago
Hacker culture is inherently antiauthoritarian, therefore queer and leftist. If you have a problem with queer leftists in your hacker community, you are the problem and need to leave.
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    - anonfordays 2y ago
      Now the grandparent comment got [flagged]. Posting again for posterity: >Hacker culture is inherently antiauthoritarian, therefore queer and leftist. Best example of Poe's Law that I've seen on HN in ages. Leftism is hilariously authoritarian, and hacking culture never had anything to do with sexuality/gender. >If you have a problem with queer leftists in your hacker community, you are the problem and need to leave. Yes, I have a problem with totalitarian, authoritarian fundamentalist leftist. If you're OK with them in your hacker community, you are the problem and need to leave.
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      - anonfordays 2y ago
        [flagged] again so I'll repost: This is what happens when you allow terminally online totalitarian leftists into your project. They cannot operate without purging the opposition. I'll cite John O’Sullivan’s First Law: "All organizations that are not actually right-wing will over time become left-wing ... The reason is, of course, that people who staff such bodies tend to be the sort who don’t like private profit, business, making money, the current organization of society, and, by extension, the Western world. At which point Michels’s Iron Law of Oligarchy takes over — and the rest follows."
    - CyberShadow 2y ago
      > I'll repost for posterity: There is no need to do that. People who want to see dead comments can turn that option on in their profile.
      - anonfordays 2y ago
        But the average lurker not logged in cannot see them.
        hn-lurker 2y ago
        I registered just to confirm this. Thanks for saying it's also an option, but I doubt I'll log in every time/too lazy to enable cookies.
- darthrupert 2y ago
  I don't doubt that queer and leftist people gravitate towards hacker culture, but how does queer and leftist follow from antiauthoritarian? The majority of people are still, and will always be non-queer, and a significant portion of antiauthoritarians are not leftist.

Glad that's not what happened here. The best people were excommunicated and burned at the stake for their heretical views because they didn't purge the toxic fundamentalists from the project.

bitwize 2y ago

Hacker culture is inherently antiauthoritarian, therefore queer and leftist. If you have a problem with queer leftists in your hacker community, you are the problem and need to leave.

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    Now the grandparent comment got [flagged]. Posting again for posterity: >Hacker culture is inherently antiauthoritarian, therefore queer and leftist. Best example of Poe's Law that I've seen on HN in ages. Leftism is hilariously authoritarian, and hacking culture never had anything to do with sexuality/gender. >If you have a problem with queer leftists in your hacker community, you are the problem and need to leave. Yes, I have a problem with totalitarian, authoritarian fundamentalist leftist. If you're OK with them in your hacker community, you are the problem and need to leave.
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    - anonfordays 2y ago
      [flagged] again so I'll repost: This is what happens when you allow terminally online totalitarian leftists into your project. They cannot operate without purging the opposition. I'll cite John O’Sullivan’s First Law: "All organizations that are not actually right-wing will over time become left-wing ... The reason is, of course, that people who staff such bodies tend to be the sort who don’t like private profit, business, making money, the current organization of society, and, by extension, the Western world. At which point Michels’s Iron Law of Oligarchy takes over — and the rest follows."
  - CyberShadow 2y ago
    > I'll repost for posterity: There is no need to do that. People who want to see dead comments can turn that option on in their profile.
    - anonfordays 2y ago
      But the average lurker not logged in cannot see them.
      - hn-lurker 2y ago
        I registered just to confirm this. Thanks for saying it's also an option, but I doubt I'll log in every time/too lazy to enable cookies.
darthrupert 2y ago
I don't doubt that queer and leftist people gravitate towards hacker culture, but how does queer and leftist follow from antiauthoritarian? The majority of people are still, and will always be non-queer, and a significant portion of antiauthoritarians are not leftist.