williamgb

Sensitive subjects seem to be effective conduits by which manipulative people can control others.

What drives me to despair is that all too frequently it takes only a cursory glance at the Twitter feed of the person making the loudest complaints regarding inclusivity and diversity to find comments which compromise these values.

The individual in this instance goes by @nexxylove on Twitter, and has recently retweeted such statements as: "We love our freedom rhetoric in this country, but most white don't actually believe in true freedom. Removing choice is their default"[0] and "…I'm tired of the intellectual dishonesty of cis men. Disgusting."[1].

Thankfully I see significant effort by those around me to tackle these problems discreetly and in sobriety. Inclusivity isn't an extreme position, and discourse need not be monopolised by those who shout the loudest.

[0] https://twitter.com/polotek/status/772113530761859072 [1] https://twitter.com/nexxylove/status/771182690238287872

A casual observation of mine which I find intriguing me is that people who tend to make such complaints are largely just as obnoxious and objectionable as their targets.

I think the author is being quite unfair regarding John Allen's "prediction" on anonymity.

First and foremost, it wasn't even a prediction. Second, his comments concerned anonymity within groups and communities, not general demographics, i.e. all users of Twitter. The referenced study linked to by the Guardian (statistically illiterate as ever) article also fails to demonstrate anonymity as a primary cause of abuse, as the author seems to imply, albeit in a passive-aggressive manner.