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Lots on green usernames in this thread.

>>worker+(OP)
What do you infer from that? I infer that lots of people are using throwaways because they want to express an opinion without risking the consequences the article alludes to.

>>Veen+i3
It's dangerous, it paints a very different picture of the situation. For example, we saw how many fascists were dormant until it became OK to be a fascist.

>>worker+(OP)
Some are trolls and/or flamewar-stokers while others are substantive contributors. That's a problem with any forum with a low barrier to entry. Users can help by flagging the trollish and flamewar posts. To flag a comment, click on its timestamp to go to its page, then click the 'flag' link at the top. (There's a small karma threshold before flag links appear.)

We sometimes close threads to new accounts when the situation is overwhelming, but I wouldn't want to do that in a case like this. Generally on HN, we try to err on the side of privileging positive contributions rather than filtering out negative ones, and we rely on community moderation and moderator moderation to try to dampen the latter. It only works partially, but it's better than punishing the positive contributors, and definitely better than being a closed community.

>>worker+(OP)
yeah because you can't talk about this stuff openly without getting cancelled, unless you aren't white or male.

>>kjjjjj+Q6
> unless you aren't white or male.

Kind of says something when this is seen as an exceptional case, given that a significant majority of people aren't white men...

>>seoaeu+Ta
Whites are about 70% of American, and half of those are men, so in American, yeah they are. This is an American site, and the context of these conversations are America, so there's nothing exceptional about this.

>>kjjjjj+Re
That works out to 35%. We seem to be in agreement?

>>seoaeu+3n
> unless you aren't white or male

You mentioned that this was seen as an exceptional case. It is exceptional. The vast majority of americans are white or male.

>>anchpo+Kt
Ah, I parsed your statement as NOT (white OR male) rather than (NOT white) OR (NOT male). The former being roughly 35% and the latter 85% of the population