>Most of the names on that list are kinda expected and obvious for any of us who spent any amount of time seriously engaging online outside of social media spac

>Most of the names on that list are kinda expected and obvious for any of us who spent any amount of time seriously engaging online outside of social media spaces. Those names are "kinda expected and obvious" for only the terminally online. >Cloudflare defended literal White Supremacists a la The Daily Stormer Never happened. >and DHH is a person of immense notoriety for their bigoted views. Only for the terminally online leftist. >What’s disappointing is two-fold: HN greens and miscreants leaping to defend overtly fascist viewpoints as valid (faithfully ignoring the Paradox of Tolerance) Heterodox opinions and anything right of Stalin != "overtly fascist viewpoints" >They aren’t the deplatformed, they’re the deplatformers; they aren’t the debanked, they’re the debankers. Always projection and admission. "When we do it, it's (D)ifferent!" >I don’t know which of you is part of the lucky 10,000 today, but more people need to internalize that life is inherently political due to its complexity. This rhetoric isn’t empty or hollow, it has meaningful impact and direct harm when left unchallenged. That's what many said about DEI/far-leftism. Anyone not fully aligned were called every -ist and name you could think of. >Folks who exist on the “fringe” have no choice but to exist as open political entities until and unless the “fringe” is normalized Everyone is a political entity. >hence the backlash to “woke” and “DEI” by those whose power is derived from oppression and unalienable attributes like race or sex It's backlash against boldfaced racism. DEI/wokeism is a racist, sexist, hateful ideology. That's why there's backlash. >There is a very real problem of wealthy and powerful people leaning heavily on old fascist tropes to promote their own agendas at the expense of everyone else, their supporters included. There was a very real problem of wealthy and powerful people leaning heavily on old communist tropes to promote their own agendas at the expense of everyone else, their supporters included.