Onanette
10mo ago
Are angry responses a metric you truly want to go by? For example, your average HBD post on reddit would elicit angry responses.
It looks to me like an earnestly-held opinion argued eloquently. Both honest and civil, yet heating the psyches of his respondents in a way that is very en-light-ening. Who would tell you about their own insecurities and hypocrisies?
Did he write "bait"? Of all the possible combinations of intentions? I don't know. I do know that "bait" keeps an ostensibly objective community from wrestling with the cognitive dissonance of a two-tiered rule system. I know that a ban would assuage the user base's hurt psyches.
As for the verbal riots and "angry responses" - Pour la canaille, Faut la mitraille! Conceding to the impulsive behavior of the mob is exactly why the HBD crowd has been kicked out of every mainstream community. I believe anyone angry about @BurdensomeCount's well-stated yet heterodox views should do some shadow-work.
This ban is transparently what it is, and themotte continues to surprise no one.
So not to be rude but how did you appear to her? Perhaps she noticed something off about you as you did her, for example, an indicator of undersocialization or "I'm not a journalist". Were I this woman I'd think "why is random man here to talk about corporate politics (which I have nothing to do with) instead of being normal and purchasing drink?" This is one of many possibilities.
This reminds me of time I was confronted in the supermarket by a 4chan user. I simply commented they were out of vinegar and after pleasantries he goes on tirade about COVID, government manufacturing diseases, how gay people incubated AIDs and have many STDs, all while I give polite white person smile trying to avoid his company. He does not get hint (parallel) owing to undersocialization, which I assume from unkempt greasiness and ideological blinders, continuing even as we enter checkout line. Onlookers onlook in horror while I amusedly wait for bags to be checked, as I know the man from /pol/'s type and they do not.
I feel for the barista in this way, but perhaps I'm not privy to particulars of situation and assume too much. Still, consider me your barista.
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