It's frustrating. If you're against political violence and in favor of free speech, some people will twist your sincere sentiment of "I don't trust the authorities not to oppress people" into "I want Nazis to have an easier time recruiting." Which, again, I don't!
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Neither do I view the genuine white supremacists (e.g. Daily Stormer types, not Sam Harris or whoever is the target du jour) as an ally in free speech conflicts. They don't give a shit about the principles or about freedom for everyone. Nazis gonna Nazi
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I do tend more toward Quinn Norton's view on hateful extremists — cutting them off entirely from the normal world probably isn't helpful https://twitter.com/quinnnorton/status/963594111801491456 …
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Anyway. I know people who are smeared way worse than I was yesterday, a couple of them on a daily basis by hundreds or maybe thousands of people. Thank god I don't attract that kind of attention.
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But it still stings. It stung when people trashed me in the past, and it'll sting when it happens again. That's inevitable. Because I'm opinionated in public, and I don't plan to stop being opinionated in public
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I worry that people I've never met will see a tweet like the one that sparked this thread, then write me off without knowing that it's inaccurate. That's a sad and scary thought
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By the way, huge thanks to my friends who defended me. When I finally saw the tweet (I have this person blocked so it had to be pointed out to me) there were a bunch of
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I don't have much of a conclusion. Just ~sharing my truth~ I guess
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sorry you got caught up in the yesterday's shitstorm. fwiw I think you may have just been collateral damage in a psychic disturbance that worked its way through the hellsite. felt it pretty strongly even without looking for it.https://twitter.com/danlistensto/status/1009810268120109056 …
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yeah, I noticed that too! before I even saw this thing, I was struck by the amount of nasty drama
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I managed to get caught in a crosswind yesterday too. Got my first ever nasty troll tweeting abusive shit at me for no apparent reason. Something went down. Not entirely sure what precipitated it, but the whole damn thing just boiled over.
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but that was just laughable. not a person I had any past relationship with. sorry to hear bout your former friends. that really sucks. I wish I knew a way to like, deprogram people who get sucked up into ideology cults.
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