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JAQing off to harass a trans community member (news.ycombinator.com)

submitted 1 year ago by corbin@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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Saw this last night but decided to give them a few hours to backtrack. Surprisingly, they've decided to leave their comments intact!

This sort of attitude, not directly harassing trans folks but just asking questions about their moral fiber indirectly, seems to be coming from some playbook; it looks like a structured disinformation source, and I wonder what motivates them.

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[–] dgerard@awful.systems 4 points 1 year ago

not sure it's actually routine, but it was in this case