[sascha_sl]

"making fun" is putting it lightly. They will dig through your accounts, archive everything you say, interpret it the worst way possible. And if that doesn't work, they'll also sometimes outright make shit up (also known as defamation). Usually, for trans people, some groomer narrative is established.

It's essentially high grade stochastic terrorism. They hand you a gun and tell you where to aim, but then get upset when someone implies they encourage pulling the trigger.

Those affected also don't often talk about it, because it encourages even more harassment.

[bauruine]

>They will dig through your accounts, archive everything you say, interpret it the worst way possible.

This sounds exactly like what the Twitter "good guys" do all the time to cancel people.

[sascha_sl]

Your false equivalence doesn't interest me. This "but the others are just as bad, therefore it's okay" mentality that has almost become an ideological reflex really needs to be added to the things HN considers bad contributions. I could feed an ebooks bot HN comments and get these exact words out.

[psyc]

If people make things up, they're doing so against the written rules. I'd link to it, but the site is under a DDoS attack being very proudly and loudly organized by an individual they believe fits said narrative. The gist is: "[Stick to what you can document, that's more than funny enough.] Misinformation is not welcome here." The un-bracketed part is verbatim if memory serves.

Narrative is a tricky thing. Neither side of the controversy would exist without their narratives.