Comment by foldr
6 days ago
HN also has vouching, so a small minority of flaggers shouldn't be able to censor a topic that a large number of HNers want to read about.
I think this got flagged initially because PG doesn't have anything to say about 'wokeness' that we have not heard many times before. He doesn't like it (big surprise) for exactly the reasons that you'd expect someone like him not to like it.
Vouching relies on visibilty while flagging dramatically reduces visibility.
And after the article was unflagged, it became one of the most upvoted topics.