OK, here's the back story.

Once upon a time, there was an LW user called Eugine_Nier. (Not, I believe, the person's actual name, but a pun on "engineer".) Eugine was on the whole a valued LW contributor. There was at least one respect in which his positions tended to be some way from those of the typical LW user; he was considerably to the "right" on various sociopolitical issues, and quite outspokenly so.

Eugine got into arguments about race, gender, feminism and the like from time to time. After a while, some people noticed that after g... (read more)