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Comment by hypfer

1 hour ago

You seem to care a lot about these issues, and probably have real face-to-face experience with the victims of that.

Problem is though that this feeling type of empathy makes you not the best advocate for them - as you can see here, where (on a platform with worse rules than HN) a flamewar would've broken out over not everyone being as emotionally involved.

We definitely need people like you, but we also need people like you to not be everywhere and scare/annoy people into not caring. Though, I also agree that scaring/annoying _into_ caring is also often required.

Idk. Activism is weird and hard and all.