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ImPostingOnHN • yesterday at 10:26 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

> a scam

> no a serious idea

> a simplistic model

> how children see the world

> stunts for attention

Your reply is mostly insults and shallow dismissals, so I don't see any reason to meaningfully respond to those parts. I'll check back later to see if you've edited insults out and substance in.

As for your separate ideas of community organization: good on you for spearheading that. The world could use more yous doing that, too. If there are any specific asks you have of the community to help you there, HN is full of capable folks.


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EA-3167 • today at 12:11 AM

There's a certain magical hypocrisy in accusing others of shallow dismissals while you dismiss them and tell them to re-write. Setting that aside "raising awareness" isn't a serious idea, it's a single step in a process that many have decided is the endpoint of a process. You see it in how people attempt to imitate protest movements of prior generations by skipping the local organization, boycotting, solidarity, and instead skip to the Big March. Or worse organizations like the Susan G. Koman foundation that simply turned "raising awareness" into an end in and of itself.

Of course the worst of those are still doing something, perhaps not something maximally effective, but something nonetheless. Tragically on the internet people don't even attempt that, they skip straight to the scolding, posturing, ideological competition and recruitment phases of a movement. The result is what we see here, individuals sharing their often ill-informed opinion (still valid of course, although not worth much) based on an ideological leaning they've never meaningfully interrogated.

Fortunately this site is full of serious people willing to engage with a topic beyond the performative, and don't feel the need to engage in condescension and lofty dismissals. Lets never talk again.