On the sickness of our community

Posted Oct 28, 2014 10:40 UTC (Tue) by nye (subscriber, #51576)
In reply to: On the sickness of our community by dlang
Parent article: On the sickness of our community

>this depiction of the two shows your bias. Someone else may view the two as resisting inventing new rights vs acts of blasphemy.

I can't believe you would be so brazen as to actually come out and say that. It's *appalling* that that kind of statement would be allowed on LWN. Anywhere else, that would be seen as obviously crossing the line, but here of course low subscriber numbers are sacrosanct.

This post makes it pretty clear: you are a great symptom of the sickness in our community.

You want to silence people from speaking out against those who are oppressing them, because you believe that the *actions* of a bigot are more important to protect than the *words* of an oppressed minority.

You are desperately scrambling to come up with some ideology to support your bigotry, but unable to come up with anything consistent because fundamentally your goal is to restrict people's freedom, and you're not willing to come out and admit that.

A community that supports toxic elements like you - even tacitly - is one that can never be healed.

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On the sickness of our community

Posted Oct 28, 2014 11:55 UTC (Tue) by dlang (guest, #313) [Link]

Ever hear the phrase "I disagree with what you are saying, but I'll fight to the death for you're right to say it"?

Freedom of speech requires that people be willing to say things that others disagree with. If it wasn't for that very freedom, the Civil Rights movement would have failed miserably.

In this case you are not even condemning me for a view I hold, but for a view that I point out some people do hold.

In any case, this tangent has gone on too long already, and Goodwin has been triggered a while ago. So I am going to try and let this tangent die off.

On the sickness of our community

Posted Nov 1, 2014 3:53 UTC (Sat) by blujay (guest, #39961) [Link]

Your comment is truly amazing. Literally, for every assertion you made, the opposite is true. If I didn't know that you were being serious, it would seem like a caricature of a rabid leftist. You're not even able to understand the difference between taking a position and saying that some other people hold such a position.

I just wish you could recognize your own hypocrisy. You call him toxic for his reasonable comments, being the epitome of the very toxicity you decry. Demonization is your modus operandi, which you irrationally employ in lieu of calm, reasonable arguments. It's like you have been brainwashed by the radical left.

You're calling good evil and evil good. Your hatred and bigotry are blinding you to the truth. I pray that your heart and mind will be opened, that you will diligently seek the truth above all else.