Comment by dang
5 years ago
> while any mention of the fate of George Floyd and so many others who have suffered and died at the hands of police gets aggressively removed from discussion
That's not even close to true—not by orders of magnitude. This seems like a classic of the notice-dislike bias (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23308098.
Sorry for the wall of links, but I want it to be clear that HN has had massive discussion about George Floyd, BLM, the protests, police brutality, race relations in the US, and related topics. I bet we'd have to go back to Snowden/NSA in Summer 2013 to find anything comparable.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23347155 - May 2020 (1467 comments)
I do not know how this is perceived in the US but for us, Europeans, BLM, main is the new master and other similar things seem to be all over the place.
Everywhere, including HN.
I do not mind, the tech scene is understandibly americanized but telling that the discussions are hidden is simply not true.
(to be clear, I am just piggy backing on your quote to not repeat it, I agree with what you say)