[FilterSweep]

Are we sure the civil war isn’t being caused by sychophants like PG himself cozying up to the alt-right while maintaining considerable power over online discourse?

Maybe these are the """hard questions"""[0] that need to be asked, as opposed to calling for a return to the Jim Crow era.

You could easily "turn off" Twitter.

[0] http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html

[kgraves]

> ...PG himself cozying up to the alt-right?

Do you have evidence for this statement?

[FilterSweep]

Here: http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html

And here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18426853

And here: https://www.computerworld.com/article/2474708/does-this-mega...

Perhaps if the queen of Hacker News chose to be clear about his beliefs his minions wouldn’t need to scurry to claim "he doesn’t actually believe this"

[aliante]

This makes as much sense as claiming that I am cozy to Hitler for favoring government healthcare.

[jameslk]

What exactly is "alt-right" about http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html?

And in your second link, PG is talked about briefly in the comments halfway down... I'm still not making the connection here

[reversii]

It's unfortunate you're getting censored for criticizing Dear Leader.

Yet another reminder of just how creepy the cult of personality HN has around Paul Graham is. Even on an article discussing him, you can't say anything critical without being downvoted and flagged.

[FilterSweep]

I’ve been here for quite a while, and I’ve learned more from this community (which included developers across the planet) than I’ve learned from any other community online.

I’ve known PG’s biases and dogwhistles for a while ("What you can’t say" is a FOGHORN of a dogwhistle), but the political landscape has changed.

When PG is expressing open regret for opening this forum, despite dang doing most of the work, he’s signaling that the discussion of this forum isn’t going in the direction he wants. This has been the most civil forum on the surface web for a long time. And that says a lot.

[clairity]

you certainly can criticize pg's arguments and not get downvoted (i've done it in the past), but any ad hominems will, and should, quickly be downvoted.

if you think you have some real knowledge to drop, make a considered criticism instead of a snide remark.