Context: A hacker wearing a pink power ranger costume deleted a racist dating website live at the end of their 39c3 talk this year.

Video of the talk (together with two journalists) here: https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-the-heartbreak-machine-nazis-in-the-echo-chamber#l=eng

(The link is set to English translation, original talk is in German. Deletion happens around minute 43)

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[+] -7 points 10 months ago (3 children)

fear quotes, dude.

I sincerely hope that you are a racist troll,

you hope differently from me.

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    What does your first sentence mean in this reply? That the person you're replying to should be scared of quotes?

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  • [–] -5 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Oh, sorry, is the correct term now "scare quotes"? Websearches were stubborn to pull up a definition for "fear quotes". But since you know scare and fear are synonyms... this should be in reach.

    I coulda swore "fear quotes" was the idiom. Maybe I've slipped along the 6th dimension again, and/or some vast retcon's afoot. n_n

    Anyways, I used scare quotes to denote my distaste for that term, mocking those who are into that kind of thing, highlighting the implausibility of it (being "pure").

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