The Asperger's Syndrome bit was weird but otherwise this was a very thought-provoking piece. To me this issue is less Molly and Quinn but the whole privileged white hacker scene. https://twitter.com/furrygirl/status/964570043819282433 …
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Honestly what gets me most is deleting her tweets and lying about what she said. You don't get to be a public intellectual if you don't have the integrity to admit and apologize for what you were wrong about tomorrow.
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People don't understand that being a public intellectual of any worth means being wrong about stuff. Sometimes very, very wrong. Owning and admitting that is as important as any other task in public thinking.
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Crabapple is a fucking hypocrite, no doubt about it, but I think this person's interpretation of the hacker community and why some of Weev's friends have stuck by him is wrong
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Wrong in what ways?
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Well, I deeply disagree with her reading of free speech principles. There's a kernel of something there — the ability to transgress what authorities dictate is important to hacker communities — but it's a genuine principle, not a juvenile affectation
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I think I’d buy the genuine principle part more easily if the breadth of people they supported were wider. Why weev and not backpage?
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To be clear, I think Weev is scum. But he came up in that community and people had personal ties, personal relationships, built up over years. Not everyone believes in dropping friends because they're bad people; that's a genuine principles conflict.
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That said, I also think she's discounting how many people did disavow Weev and stop engaging with him. He certainly feels bitter about it https://twitter.com/browserdotsys/status/963587013726363648 …
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