He left Twitter because he asserted that Indians shouldn’t be as resistant to colonialism as they are. Given that millions died, it’s okay that he got criticized. Are you saying nobody should point out when somebody says something shitty?
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Replying to @anildash @joshelman and
Not at all! I think the point is in the current environment, every non-groupthink opinion is viewed as shitty by someone leading to outrage.
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Replying to @ThufirHawat @anildash and
Which means that actually shitty things get lumped in with things that are just an unpopular opinion.
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Replying to @ThufirHawat @anildash and
And we are all losers because people like
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Replying to @peterpham @ThufirHawat and
To what do you ascribe his absence?
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Replying to @anildash @peterpham and
IMO it wasn’t just the India thing.
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Replying to @AustenAllred @peterpham and
Can you describe “downside” here? Is there any circumstance where he’s not still immensely powerfully politically, economically, and culturally?
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Replying to @anildash @peterpham and
I remember when people started boycotting Dropbox in an effort to remove Condoleezza Rice from the board because of her position on the Iraq war. Eich was fired for supporting Prop 8. The perspective of “well he’d still be powerful” doesn’t matter
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Replying to @AustenAllred @peterpham and
So you’re saying somebody whose kid died for no reason in Iraq must pay for a Dropbox account? Like, I genuinely don’t understand what the implication is here. No consumer boycotts ever?
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The social backlash against people that disagree on even reasonable things is so intense it just isn’t worth speaking up. I’d feel 10x more comfortable sharing my liberal viewpoints in the deeply red town I’m from than sharing *any* conservative viewpoint in SF
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Replying to @AustenAllred @peterpham and
You ever wonder why you don’t get called a terrorist and told that your child is an abomination by those folks? Because that’s what people have said, to my face. (You know why.)
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Replying to @anildash @AustenAllred and
I’m from a deeply red town, too; when the first black family got a cross burned on its yard, I felt that was actually worse than mean tweets.
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