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wredcolltoday at 1:44 AM2 repliesview on HN

I feel like I once heard a great word/phrase for this thing where people attack the "civility" of the messenger instead of the actual injustice being reported on, but I can't remember what it was now. It came up a lot during black lives matter protests.


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mx7zysuj4xewtoday at 3:39 AM

It's called "Tone policing"

Aurornistoday at 2:18 AM

FYI the person doing the weird serving thing I was talking about was not the person whose Legos are missing.

It’s a drama YouTuber doing these things for content. He’s not doing the case any favors by prioritizing his content generation over basic common sense procedures.

This entire sub thread is not about the LEGO victim.

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