Why be concerned about your throwaway minutes-old profile with only comments in this one thread? It sounds more like you're afraid that your claim might get challenged.

> Why be concerned about your throwaway minutes-old profile with only comments in this one thread?

Not the parent, but that's a weird question. A throwaway account is used precisely because you don't want your main account (and your irl identity) to be associated with something that might get you in trouble.

Giving out information that can massively shrink the number of accounts that may be your real account is counter-productive in that regard.

What possible attack vector is possible using just a city and throwaway account name? The accounts obviously a troll based on the attacks against other users when their claim is questioned.

The city alone will massively reduce the possibilities. As soon as you add any other information (political leanings, for example, as they're easy to guess), you can shrink it even more.

They may still be a troll, I'm just saying that being surprised that somebody doesn't want to divulge information when they've found it necessary to create a throwaway account is strange.

I'm not responding to this comment, just pointing out for anyone reading, that this person knows very well that he and his buddies won't be waiting with a "challenge" for anyone who attempts to publicly criticize BLM or the movement, but instead with a likely doxxing and unpersonning.

I didn't look at your profile. Maybe you're new to Hacker News, but new accounts show up highlighted in green. I merely read the two comments you posted here. I did look at the repo, for three cities with which I'm familiar, and couldn't reconstruct the claims you're making.

You needn't post examples from your city. If this database is as flawed as you claim you should be able to find examples that are not traceable to your information.

A BLM leader has openly admitted to being "trained marxists". [0] [1]

[0] https://nypost.com/2020/06/25/blm-co-founder-describes-herse...

[1] https://youtu.be/HgEUbSzOTZ8?t=52

All of this from a Google search.

What, exactly, does that have to do with an entirely separate repo showcasing police brutality?

I'm having trouble understanding your line of argument unless you're claiming conspiracy and that this repo is in fact being ran by secret marxists. Or that all of the protesters are actually marxists. Which is insanity.

I've seen those before. So a basically unknown neo-marxist group gloms onto a grassroots movement. So what? Are you daft enough to think they speak for them now?

And, ffs, what does on earth does "trained marxist" even mean? I repeat my question: is it like a "trained capitalist"? If not, why not?

And what is your problem with that?

That proves that there is a hidden agenda within the black lives matter organisation.

What organization?

If they openly state their desires, that is the opposite of being hidden.

The point is, people should know that they are supporting an organisation that has Marxist leaders.

Which one? Who trained them? Why? Where was this 'open admission'? What is their intended outcome?

A BLM /leader/, plus the claims the organization itself makes.

Yet, when I have provided recent evidence [0] in one of the comments, it gets gaslighted and flagged. Says it all really.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23694041

What do you think "trained marxist" means, in practice?

Seriously, because Associate Professor in Community Organizing doesn't sound nearly as scary, does it?

Do you think capitalism is racist?