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Please stop speaking up on behalf of African Americans without consulting their own opinion on this matter. I'm one and not even my Black friends care about this silly posturing fr…

Claiming without evidence that African Americans are offended (not to mention it is patronizing to them) by a term like "master" is subjective reality. Cancel culture, which grand …

> Is it more accessible? As in, is this change driven by complaints from actual people who feel excluded by the terminology? As far as I'm aware, none of the projects making these …

This shouldn't be a controversial take. It is Occam's razor after all. We know that before the tech industry became popular and a way to make good money, women displayed little to …

Hacker News has a progressive Silicon Valley bias, where Critical Race Theory provides a religious explanation ("systemic bias") for under-representation of women in tech. Data fro…

Welcome to Hacker News, where anything critical of Silicon Valley's religions (climate activism and veganism), no matter how well-reasoned and factual, gets downvoted to death.

In other words, it is all about social skills. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAe867evM18

Who is the "we" here? The woke and the neoracists? Do you realize that the platform on which you speak, and censor others, was created by the very people you aim to condescendingly…

> This is why I watch with increasing alarm the current trend to “cancel” meat. But this is not a new trend though. See The Global Influence of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church on …

If you can't connect all of this to the larger pattern of Woke propaganda in America, then I don't know what to tell you. Look up Christopher F. Rufo just for one example and how t…

Texas too. https://www.dallasnews.com/business/real-estate/2018/11/02/s...

> Curious - why do people get offended by Torvalds? Same reason why people get offended by replacing Git branch "master" to "main" or "blacklist" to "blocklist". No reasonable pers…

Great recession? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Recession

What was the cause of the big spike around 2010? What approach did the then US president take about it?

You are misrepresenting my comment, which I wrote only because you said "I feel like I've learned literally nothing from any of them". I indicated that affect, not consciousness, i…

Try eliminating the following assumptions a) Consciousness depends on affect b) Affect is real, and not simply an imagined experience. In other words, question the validity of the …

Apparently Thursday (March 4th) is significant to QAnon believers. https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-56260345 Before the 20th amendment of the US Constitution - adopted in 19…

> Wonder what new measures they want to push, for "safety" against "domestic terrorism"? Doubling down on stifling free speech of course. https://reclaimthenet.org/democrats-level-…

Here is more information on them from Sharyl Attkisson, an expert in analyzing media bias, “This started, and I traced this in my second book, ‘The Smear,’ to Media Matters … the l…

"Tone policing" was the rationale behind Linux Foundation kicking out of Charles Max Wood from their conference. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21484347

> It’s interesting to read the pro Chinese propaganda on HN And the president of the United States himself dismissed Uighur genocide as being part of China’s ‘different norms’. htt…

> the subtitle, though, which seems more factual and less interpretive Not true, if you read the linked paper: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.1086/712972 > The reaso…

Yes, it can be done at various levels of subtlety as well as at group levels. Why else would we have such words describing adult behavior as "workplace bullying", "online harassmen…

> I call bullshit. Teenagers aren't complete in their development yet. That's why you can, and should, train and teach them. You are absolutely right. - If you were an anti-bullyin…