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Comment by dillondoyle

3 years ago

I experience this in comment threads as well. I'm often surprised by down votes I get when I respond to some of that.

Ultimately a large part of this problem is a total lack of diversity and heavily cis male white perspective here. Tech in general suffers from lack of diversity and it shows. Fixing this would help at least balance the threads a bit and maybe open some minds. I'm cis white male too ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ . we need other voices.

It might not be possible, or pointless, to have a conversation when people live in alternate realities or hold plainly racist, sexist, non factual views.

I do think these topics are important though.

Gender, race, & immigration are great examples of 'political' topics that also tie into what most in this thread feel HN should focus on: tech/startups. These topics are important in discussing hiring, company culture, human rights etc.