Perhaps this post hasn’t had enough visibility, brigading and sock puppets for it to happen, but it very often happens, there are plenty of posts where comments like mine get buried.

Which gender gets discriminated the most? Not really relevant. The issue is the societal response to men being discriminated against, not only in generalizations, but also in topics like incarceration rates and lengths of incarceration, even when accounting for criminal history, and severity of the crime.

And yet, people act like one argument is valid and the other one isn’t. Neither one is valid, both racism and sexism are incredibly damaging.

Now watch me be downvoted to hell in record time for this statement.

Honestly, sometimes I wonder if you actually need help and are just suffering and can’t see it, or if it is just someone doing a bit like Ken M. Either way, cheers.

Friendly reminder to take your meds, buddy. Hope you are well, I worry about you and think of you often.

I was wondering why this thread was so long and full of personal attacks, then I noticed who you were interacting with. Ugh, that person is pretty toxic.

In one side, in academia lots of researchers use email lists of benefactors, without checking every single one and automate the donation request for higher chances of success. So people can allege ignorance.

On the other end, there is optics. It is easier to investigate a no name than someone who is constantly donating money, people’s morals can be compromised when they think “It is a tenuous accusation, and if we freeze their funds, all of this science projects, charities and good deeds would also be affected, so best to err on the side of caution”, giving associates of the evil person time to hide or destroy evidence, tip the evil person about the investigation, and give the henchmen of said evil person time go blackmail, threaten and even murder the people behind the investigation.

Decisive action is important in law enforcement, and both optics and soft power can be a hinderance to investigation when used in that way.