It is reassuring to me that someone who uses thought terminating cliche dog-whistle terms like “problematic” and “entitled” feels the need to use a throwaway account.

I mean, it's definitely very similar to HN in that way, at least. Watching people here talk about econ or finance makes me want to smash my head against a wall - because econ is just politics, right, and you're entitled to confidently shout your opinion even if you have very little background in the field, right? And then we look around and think that this is "enlightened conversation;" nah, it's just a bunch of techies who think they are much smarter and more informed than they actually are.

The problem of entitled people re-interpreting facts to suit their worldview predates the internet by many millennia. Whether your penultimate "whataboutism" is more or less insightful than this ultimate observation is not an interesting question.