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Minecraft’s creator excluded from event over his ‘comments and opinions’

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Re: Minecraft’s creator excluded from event over his ‘comments and opinions’

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Post by apta »

NotAnEconomist wrote: post #20
rcxdude wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you think the reasons most people don't express opinions like the ones notch has expressed recently is due to a fear of backlash over being considered 'un-PC' as opposed to not actually holding those opinions? This rhetoric plays into a common theme among extremists which is quite dangerous: "Everyone actually thinks the same way I do, they are just afraid to say it".

> Do you think the reasons most people don't express opinions like the ones notch has expressed recently is due to a fear of backlash over being considered 'un-PC' as opposed to not actually holding those opinions? Repeated surveys show that the identitarian left accounts for about 8% of the population, and that their views are over represented in media, while people are genuinely afraid of being publicly lynched for…

And you're being downvoted, ironically (or maybe not ironically).

Re: Minecraft’s creator excluded from event over his ‘comments and opinions’

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Post by neaden »

etrevino wrote: post #39
bryanlarsen wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It took about 5 seconds of googling to find this: https://twitter.com/notch/status/901192994971410433?lang=en Another 2 seconds for: https://twitter.com/notch/status/1101794469060337664?lang=en

For those of us at work, do you mind summarizing these tweets in a reasonably SFW fashion?

The first "(pizzagate is real)" second "Q is legit. Don't trust the media." the second is followed with him defending the Q conspiracy in the comments, the first all the replies have pretty much been deleted.

Re: Minecraft’s creator excluded from event over his ‘comments and opinions’

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Post by belltaco »

etrevino wrote: post #39
bryanlarsen wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It took about 5 seconds of googling to find this: https://twitter.com/notch/status/901192994971410433?lang=en Another 2 seconds for: https://twitter.com/notch/status/1101794469060337664?lang=en

For those of us at work, do you mind summarizing these tweets in a reasonably SFW fashion?

The actual text is:

(pizzagate is real)

(q is legit. don't trust the media)

Re: Minecraft’s creator excluded from event over his ‘comments and opinions’

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Post by apta »

bitwize wrote: post #15

Microsoft is simply applying a strategy that's known to work (see: the study confirming that banning problematic subreddits has had a positive effect on Reddit as a whole). This is what happens when you hold views decent people don't hold: you get silenced, ostracized, and your name blotted from your own work. Want decent people to engage with you? Change your mind.

How do you reconcile that with censorship in general?

Re: Minecraft’s creator excluded from event over his ‘comments and opinions’

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Post by belltaco »

jbob2000 wrote: post #38
bryanlarsen wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It took about 5 seconds of googling to find this: https://twitter.com/notch/status/901192994971410433?lang=en Another 2 seconds for: https://twitter.com/notch/status/1101794469060337664?lang=en

I laughed at those, I think he's trolling.

If you look at the Twitter thread of the Q post, he seems sincere in his beliefs and is defending it. Given his other posts, it doesn't look like trolling.

Re: Minecraft’s creator excluded from event over his ‘comments and opinions’

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Post by temp1831 »

rcxdude wrote: post #10
malvosenior wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

He's self-made and not afraid to express his opinions even if they aren't politically correct. People like him should be applauded as they are increasingly rare in today's society.

Do you think the reasons most people don't express opinions like the ones notch has expressed recently is due to a fear of backlash over being considered 'un-PC' as opposed to not actually holding those opinions? This rhetoric plays into a common theme among extremists which is quite dangerous: "Everyone actually thinks the same way I do, they are just afraid to say it".

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Re: Minecraft’s creator excluded from event over his ‘comments and opinions’

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Post by xsmasher »

OedipusRex wrote: post #3
meddlepal wrote: post #2

Seriously what the fuck happened to Notch. I don't blame Microsoft from excluding him at all.

I think it's a side effect of becoming so well known in a short amount of time.

It's a side effect of success and attitude/pov not being correlated.

Re: Minecraft’s creator excluded from event over his ‘comments and opinions’

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Post by temp1831 »

Saying "trans women are not women" is not transphobic. You can disagree with a tentative definition without being a bigot.

I do not know the entire corpus of Notch's statements on transgender issues, but this single tweet should not crucify him.

Re: Minecraft’s creator excluded from event over his ‘comments and opinions’

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Post by kthejoker2 »

apta wrote: post #44
bitwize wrote: post #15

Microsoft is simply applying a strategy that's known to work (see: the study confirming that banning problematic subreddits has had a positive effect on Reddit as a whole). This is what happens when you hold views decent people don't hold: you get silenced, ostracized, and your name blotted from your own work. Want decent people to engage with you? Change your mind.

How do you reconcile that with censorship in general?

Censorship is being put in actual jail under threat of a gun for saying something.

Private individuals and organizations should not be forced to subsidize your speech.

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