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by tedunangst 3555 days ago
Was Eich harassed because he was a man?
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That isn't the case being made:

"men become targets of similar harassment campaigns"

was the case.

Not

"men become targets of similar harassment campaigns because of their gender"

If you want to qualify away from beliefs towards physical properties then fine. Lets turn around and look at those harassed for their hair colour. How about skin colour? Origin? Things other members of their family have done?

If one person is targeted because of their gender and one person is targeted because of their beliefs, I would qualify those situations as dissimilar.
I said:

> If you want to qualify away from beliefs towards physical properties then fine. Lets turn around and look at those harassed for their hair colour. How about skin colour? Origin? Things other members of their family have done?

I do not understand why this is not sufficient to preempt your comment.

In case it is not here are some example I have found alongside their google search terms:

* "Ginger driven to suicide" http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2507153/Bullied-ging...

* "footballer harassed racial" https://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2013/may/13/racism...

* "father harassed by" http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-06-28/sandy-hook-massacre-vi...

No, and while I agree with neither Eich's politics nor what happened to him, I somehow find myself having no trouble holding those beliefs in my head at the same time as I do the ones I've expressed on this thread.