[bhfasdhjgdgsuyv]

It's part of HN's tradition of gaslighting victims of demographically-targeted violence by ignoring any kind of context and pedantically claiming "it couldn't possibly have been $bad_thing". Of course, because being contrarian is more important than learning about the history of LGBT abuse.

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Very much this. Do you have an ubsubstantiated conspiracy theory about the evil machinations of bigcorp? Congratulations - upvotes for your wisdom. An actual report of your lived experience of homophobia/racism/sexism/whatever? Hmm, are you sure it's not just in your imagination?

[bhfasdhjgdgsuyv]

It's nice to not know it's not _actually_ just my imagination haha.

[Pfhreak]

Thank you for this. I expect you'll get down voted or flagged, but my experience as a queer person on hn had absolutely been full of exactly what you describe.

[bhfasdhjgdgsuyv]

It started out that way (you might have noticed this is a throwaway), but it seems this resonated with people.

[textfiles]

Seconded.