Please don't take HN threads on unrelated flamewar tangents. It's one thing to go off topic in a curious or surprising way, but this one could only lead to sludge.
I don't really have a side in this whole business, but you seem to have brought this topic up entirely to slander someone, and I for one don't particularly appreciate the hijack.
I do understand this topic leads to emotional reactions from many people, and I get that it feels overwhelmingly necessary to express those feelings, but please reconsider using HN for this particular purpose in the future. If nothing else, realize that this ends up undercutting your own position by association to community harm.
The evidence boils down to a unnamed source that ESR trusts... unsourced hearsay. Pretty thin indeed!
I think commenter Anonymous4982 says it the best: "My advice: stick to writing about tech, ’cause you make yourself look like a fool when you write about politics." There might be more along those lines but it is pretty painful reading the comments on that post.
In current Internet usage I have never seen "Tea partier" used once in anything except a derisive way, outside of Tea Partiers calling themselves members of the Tea Party. Much how SJW call themselves SJW's. Unironically.
>In current Internet usage i have never seen SJW used once in anything except a derisive way.
The reason you see "SJW" used in such derisive ways is because many people hate SJW's. Just like many people hate Tea Partiers. The meaning hasn't been changed but the connotations have been co-opted to mean something else.
When I call someone a Tea Partier or Tea Party Member it's never a compliment but that doesn't mean I should call them something else if they identify as and call themselves a Tea Partier. Unless you have a suggestion on how to refer to the Tea Party without the words "Tea Party"?
I can either use their term `SJW` or I can use another accurate term `totalitarian cultural Marxists`.
I don't recall black people referring to themselves as "niggers" when the term was conceived. In contrast, SJW was coined by the people describing themselves unironically.
> Nigger just originates from the french term for "black"
It originates from a latin root, most likely by way of Portuguese or Spanish.
> how offensive could it possibly be!
As offensive as we agree to consider it. There's nothing intrinsically offensive about words, the public view about what's offensive and what's not is rather arbitrary. That's why a certain culture considers "nigger" offensive if used by pink skinned people, while "black" is perfectly neutral.
ESR is (in my opinion) insanely claiming that there is a conspiracy amongst women in OS to catch popular male developers in honeypots. He also claimed Linus was aware of the attempts and taking defensive measures. I kinda regret giving it attention but at the same time I wanted Linus to say it was insane to shut up all the really horrible people rallying behind ESR on it making it even more difficult for women in OS.
