Because no one explained. Notch made Minecraft and at one point was making £300k a minute in sales. After a few years of very intense life changing profits he eventually sold Minecraft for £4B and turned into a bit of a weirdo largely blamed on his sudden rise in wealth.
If you read his blog you'd understand there was a lot of subtlety and complex relationships and emotions, but the gist is that.
To me that's not weird, that is just politics. Lots of people are privately or publicly horrid and that isn't really noteworthy.
To me the weird thing is that he didn't seem to realize only kids were really worshiping the ground he walked upon and to everyone else he was just another rich dude. After the sale he moved to LA to throw parties in his lavish mansion but it seems nobody wants to hang out with him more than twice so instead he started lonelyposting from his ginormous empty granite rooms.
Nothing out of the normal from what I've heard from relatives of mine that I still get along fine with (other than the first one, don't know any Q people, though apparently my parents' nextdoor neighbor is one). Though worded a bit more strongly than I hear from relatives, but that's what Twitter does by encouraging short form snotty posts. If they were on Twitter I'm sure they'd be saying similar things.
This is pretty normal though. Also I wouldn't say they're racist. They'd strongly object to being called racist as well. And this is in a pretty liberal area too.
Everyone objects to being called a racist. You clearly talk as someone who considers themselves not to be racist, if someone on the street called you racist you would no doubt object more strongly than an actual racist! But that would implicate you as an actual racist, by your standards.
This kind of thinking is why the American education system (from my understanding, not being an American) used to include studying "The Crucible". Faulty witchhunt logic often applies to the person using it, and only leads to trouble. That being said, fuck Notch, but your mindset is almost as dangerous as his.
It is not so black and white. A person may have been brought up racist, no fault of their own and tantamount to child abuse I would say. Your mindset would exclude any chance of re-education for them.
At a wider scale it's also very simple to talk big like you are right now online. But as a hackernews regular I rather imagine you are most likely a middling tech worker, perhaps living pay cheque to pay cheque feeding a family (2.5 kids and a dog). You are, much like the average American politician, very likely to denouce racism and support grand action in private - but much less likely to jeopardise your family and livelihood to back the words up. Hopefully you can see the hypocrisy in asking anyone else to do so from behind the glow of your monitor.
Saying that feminism might be corrupted by grifters who do not actually seek equality between the genders would be controversial, but acceptable.
Saying that homosexual pride was important at the start, but now in most places gay people have the identical rights to straight people, and therefore gay pride is no more meaningful than straight pride would be controversial, but acceptable.
Missing either context by saying you're against feminism ("So you do NOT support equality between genders?") or that straight pride is the same as gay pride ("You do understand that 'pride' in this context is a rebellion against 'SHAME'. People are saying they refuse to be ASHAMED of being gay. Noone has ever told a straight person they should be ashamed of being straight") is not acceptable.
It is bigotry. There are left-wing bigots and right-wing bigots. And there are right wingers who are not bigots.
But there are definitely correlations and trends between bigotry and political beliefs...
You're arguing with the wrong person - you should reply to OP.
I completely agree with you. Notch is indefensible.
My argument was that there MIGHT be an acceptable way to have a conversation about what grifters are doing to feminism (without abandoning the whole concept)
Or there MIGHT be an acceptable way to have a conversation about whether gay pride should evolve as society evolves.
But not by saying you're against feminism, or by saying you're against gay pride without qualifications.
yeah, man.. I got muscled out of The Left for wearing masks too early in the pandemic, but I don't feel like it's controversial to say that Pizzagate and QAnon are "weird"
I'd still call myself a leftist. But like pretty much all rational people who've done any introspection at all: I'm now an alt right maniac because I'm willing to talk to people I disagree with and try to think things through from their perspective.
I masked up early since people wear masks in hospitals and people mask up in Asia when they're sick. That made me "anti-science"
I think free speech is actually important even if scumbags lie to people. I think that the government shouldn't have the ability to arbitrarily decide what is and isn't true from one day to the next, and they DEFINITELY shouldn't have this much soft power to shut down unwanted narratives through backchannels.
What's really funny about all this is that I can talk to my actual hard-right friends about this stuff, and they don't rage on me for being pro-trans or any other views they disagree about. We can talk about it, find the root of our disagreement, and then live in peace. The only Leftists I can get to that point with are others like myself who've been muscled out and branded dangerous alt-right lunatics.
If you read his blog you'd understand there was a lot of subtlety and complex relationships and emotions, but the gist is that.