<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mc32</author><text>This is a sad state of affairs where one can&amp;#x27;t even have a meta discussion about a topic without having to tip toe around ill-defined lines.&lt;p&gt;In the long run, this has the potential to turn people how want to stay out of politics and draw them in out of necessity, or they may also be cowed into something they disagree with to protect their livelihood.&lt;p&gt;In either case, it&amp;#x27;s not a good thing that one may not seek science in academia.  The thing that got us to where we are.  Without science and inquisitiveness, even into controversial subjects (many normal things were at one time controversial) we would not be where we are today.&lt;p&gt;This is being undermined by dogmaticism and we can only hope science prevails.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>MIT Abandons Its Mission. and Me</title><url>https://bariweiss.substack.com/p/mit-abandons-its-mission-and-me</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>57844743385</author><text>What people haven’t grasped yet is you can’t fight the mob.&lt;p&gt;There’s no recourse, no appeal, no tribunal, no council of wise learned people you can go to when the mob sets out to destroy you.&lt;p&gt;You’re just simply fucked and have to accept you’ve been cancelled, your reputation is ruined and you’re “out”.&lt;p&gt;That’s all there is to it and no-one has come up with a solution.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>MIT Abandons Its Mission. and Me</title><url>https://bariweiss.substack.com/p/mit-abandons-its-mission-and-me</url></story>