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She dog-whistled the mob, no doubt that mob gave death threats.

People lose their shit when anonymous trolls send death threats to prominent women, but typically completely ignore the same happening to men. Perhaps women get more because they react more? Perhaps people shouldn't feed the trolls?

Please don't reply to this with a pithy feel-good response like "nobody should send death threats!". It's like saying "there shouldn't be war in the world!". It's an obvious goal that everyone agrees on, but there is no way to achieve without use of totalitarian control over the world/internet - something I'm sure we can agree is unacceptable.



> dog-whistled

You seem to be confused about what "dog whistle" means. She wasn't using secret SJW shibboleths.

> no doubt that mob gave death threats

"No doubt"! What a convenient way to assert that something happened without having to provide evidence for it.

> typically completely ignore the same happening to men

No doubt you have evidence of this, too. No doubt you have evidence that this happens to as many men as women, and as often, so as to warrant equivalent reactions.

> but there is no way to achieve without use of totalitarian control over the world/internet

You need to have a very limited imagination and near-total ignorance of history to think that positive change only comes about via totalitarian means.




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