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Comment by satvikpendem | Hacker News Reader

Is it really so difficult for people to just (to put it harshly) shut up and do their work? I don't understand why people, especially prominent people, feel to need to go on social issue tirades that jeopardize their livelihoods.

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Might it be possible that the guy is undergoing a mental breakdown?

I mean, he might still have been extremely racist, but it's strange how he recently came off the hinge and out of the blue decided to just spew all kinds of extremely racist statements and conspiracy theories.

Adam has been a racist for years

It’s not out of the blue, he’s been circling the drain of alt-right talking points for years.

He’s rich already and so maybe doesn’t care?

JK Rowling has been clear this is her stance with respect to her bizarre anti Trans stance.

She doesn't have a bizarre anti trans stance, that's made up and willfully repeated by a media that wants to stir up clicks. What she's said is that she supports trans people but has limits on what people are obliged to call/consider them, in terms of factual gender.

This isn't true. Her own words have questioned whether trans people exist and she has donated to anti-trans organizations.

Oh, going on social issue tirades works pretty well if you are a progressive.

In fact, this can be a very lucrative business model

I don't know if calling white people a hate group would go well with anyone.

I read a Wired article recently that argued for racial segregation of websites.

If it it hadn’t been advocating that from a PoC perspective it would have been considered hate speech I guess.

[1] 2019 - https://www.wired.com/story/we-should-seriously-consider-seg...

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