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>it's not right to gossip about a human being as a case specimen as if he weren't here. Well said. Its infuriating the lack of common courtesy and sensitivity
by phaus 11y ago
>it's not right to gossip about a human being as a case specimen as if he weren't here.
Well said. Its infuriating the lack of common courtesy and sensitivity that people show in threads about his work.
It seems to me that he would, like most of us would in his situation, want to be judged on the merits of his work, without other people constantly framing in the context of his mental illness.
- jakejake 11y agoIt would be easier if his posts were only bizzare or incoherent. Even his messia complex would probably be forgivable. The condescending, rude and racist things he says are just extremely hard to overlook. Giving one person a free pass at the expense of many others being able to come hear and not see racist, hateful speech tolerated. It's a shame as smart as he is he can't seem to figure out that certain terms are just not ok to use in a public forum (or anywhere really). I'm not even sure he means them as they are verbalized anyway.
- allenbrunson 11y agoGiving one person a free pass (...) terry is given the exact opposite of a "free pass." he has created at least eight accounts at this site. all of them are now hellbanned.
- vacri 11y agoGetting hellbanned for behaviour is not the opposite of a free pass, exact or otherwise.
- jakejake 11y agoAnd when he creates his 9th account and proceeds to use the n-word to insult people he feels are intellectually inferior to him - that one will be hellbanned as well, and rightly so in my opinion. The guy learned how to write compilers and operating systems, surely he is capable of learning to stop using that term - at least on this forum.
- mordocai 11y agoIf he didn't have schizophrenia, i'd completely agree with you. As it is, i'm not sure he is capable of learning to stop using any particular terms. At least not during an episode.
- dang 11y agoThis is an example of the perennial dispute that we're talking about. It's (a) not ok to begin with, and (b) endless regurgitation. It's time to stop.