Hacker News Reader

Comment by the_third_wave | Hacker News Reader

I read the page and did not find anything worth labelling "disgusting alt-right vocabulary". Either put up or shut up with the "disgusting alt-right vocabulary" nonsense. This type of accusation without examples and explanations just why it is "disgusting" and "alt-right" only serves to poison the well from which ideas are drawn, it serves no good purpose.

So, show us some examples of that disgusting vocabulary so we can respond to it. If you can not just keep your fingers off the keyboard until you have something constructive to add to the discussion.

View on HN

Please don't take HN threads further into ideological flamewar. It's not what this site is for, and we ban accounts that do it. Specifically, when an account is using HN primarily for ideological battle, we ban it, regardless of which ideology it's battling for—we have to, because it's destructive of what this site is supposed to exist for.

Your account has been veering back into this territory quite noticeably, and if you keep it up we're going to have to ban you again. If you'd please review the guidelines and stick to the rules from now on, we'd appreciate it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

I had a look at one of his Peertube feeds and I see that "soy[noun]" is something he uses often enough that it's probably not a typo. Example: "climate soyence," "OBS is major soyware." All with the soyboy meme guy overlaid. The "soy" thing is very much an alt-right dogwhistle, but those have a way of leaking out, so it's not always a red flag in isolation. I don't think such a charitable read is warranted in this case: he's all in on the meme. Put it together with all the pepes and whatnot, and it's clear he's at least well into the pipeline.

This is why I'm usually against making such accusations without extra context. There's no way a casual reader could have seen this. If you don't have that context, it's clearly just a typo! So Kaze404 looks like a goofball, unless you have context.

edit: more context that removes all doubt https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28653868

It’s 2021. Like it or not, what you’re describing is common slang of internet youth culture.

Edgy antisemitic[0] language (like "unJewgled"), along with transphobia, homophobia, and racism, was normal when I was an internet youth, too. Then I grew up. I don't think he's an internet youth unless I seriously misjudged the photo on his website.

[0] https://www.adl.org/spelling

"unJewgled Chromium"[1] was the first one that came to mind. He's normally a little bit more subtle, but I guess he was feeling randy that time.

I'm not going to dig further through his blog posts (they're insufficiently interesting from a technological perspective; mostly longform versions of what someone with only opinions from 4chan would write), but you're welcome to.

[1]: https://lukesmith.xyz/articles/every-web-browser-absolutely-...

I did so in another comment on this very thread. And unfortunately for you, even if I didn't you don't have the power to stop me from saying it. Maybe next time read the rest of the thread before commenting.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com