I think this is made worse when he runs Hacker News, and lets that platform be used in a very similar case to defend himself.
My original post references "First They Came" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came_...) That's not to suggest feminist bullying is anything close to Nazi Germany, but to suggest we all have moral duties to speak out for the powerless and abused.
PG 'throwing in' during "Donglegate" would not have done anything to improve the situation.
2. Paul runs a press that specializes in topics in tech
3. Paul and his mods goes out of their way to kill threads that discuss this topic when it deals with other people, people who are almost entirely powerless to defend themselves and so rely on the crowdsourced power of others to defend them and discuss the topic
4. Paul then uses the same press to complain how he was treated.
Draw your own conclusions regarding Paul's relative complicity in what happened to others and himself.
And there are of course far more incidents than the three I mention.
