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I think that what it comes down to is that a certain subset of the population has mental illness - some more severe than others - and when you come in contact w
by sounddust 18y ago
I think that what it comes down to is that a certain subset of the population has mental illness - some more severe than others - and when you come in contact with a lot of people, you are going to have to occasionally deal with those people. You can complain all you want, but even if the tone of the internet community as a whole changes, you're still going to get death threats and get spit on. It's a problem with the way that society handles mental illness, not a problem with the attitudes of the VC/startup community.
- blasdel 18y agoMichael Arrington is one of those people.
- sounddust 18y agoCome on... of course you could argue that all humans are mentally ill to some extent. But Arrington's behavior is easily within the realm of acceptable social behavior, even if he does like to cause minor controversy. However, death threats and randomly spitting in someone's face are unambigiously crossing those social boundaries by a wide margin.
- blasdel 18y agoArrington is a pathological narssicist. I'm not remotely surprised that he's pissed off other crazy people enough for them to get retaliatory.