The overwhelming majority of comments in this thread have little to do with the topic and are meta-discussions that people have strong opinions about. These have almost nothing to do with identity, their pet projects, or what they personally stand for. Discussions like these cropping up in an unfavorable thread aren’t surprising to me at all and are fairly standard non-political topics for strong disagreement on a forum. The consensus opinion on the thread seems to in fact be that it wasn’t well written, doesn’t necessarily accomplish its purpose, was overbearing, and should be downvoted as not really relevant to LW.
For anyone just coming into the mix, the main comment threads are:
The upvotes/downvotes in the thread, Eugine, and keeping around annonymous public accounts
How the thread doesn’t really belong here
Moderator actions and the overall role of moderation on LW (which makes up over 37% of the thread’s comments).
The overall harmfulness of the article and arguments back and forth about it
Posts like this driving people away
The only non-meta thread that directly has anything strongly to do with gender was the pluralization of the phrase “non grata” in Latin.
and I think everyone should be reminded that it was all clearly about credit card debt.
I made one reply to this, and later deleted it. Then, I made another reply, and deleted that one as well.
I feel mind-killed and I can’t tell who else is mind-killed. I’m just going to take this in stride as a time-appropriate refresher course on why we don’t discuss politics.