Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by d0mine 1453 days ago
Such comments remind me provocateur methods used by police to suppress any legitimate critique. It works like this:

  1. there is some legitimate issue
  2. people protest (peacefully)
  3. a provocateur does something over the top (violence, absurd statements like "defund the police")
  4. legitimate protesters are discredited because of 3.