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It's not a death threat, you're just unfamiliar with 90s hip-hop (news.ycombinator.com)

submitted 9 months ago by corbin@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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Possibly the worst defense yet of Garry Tan's tweeting of death threats towards San Francisco's elected legislature. In yet more evidence for my "HN is a Nazi bar" thesis, this take is from an otherwise-respected cryptographer and security researcher. Choice quote:

sorry, but 2Pac is now dad music, I don't make the rules

Best sneer so far is this comment, which links to this Key & Peele sketch about violent rap lyrics in the context of gang violence.

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[–] gerikson@awful.systems 9 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

It wasn't removed, just flagged to below the default view threshold. 'tptacek really lost me a lot of respect in that comment

Edit weirdly this is the second time in as many weeks I've encountered the term "die slowly, motherfucker". The first was in the context of a man who obsessively built the perfect stereo and room to listen to it in, enlisting his kids in the labor. His eldest son finally snapped and uttered the words. They remained estranged until the man's death.

I have not heard the original song.