Please don't take HN threads on generic flamewar tangents. They are all the same and resolve nothing.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18275156.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18275156.
There was nothing generic about my comment nor was it a tangent from the topic at hand. It was a direct reply to an individual in favor of "diversity as a goal" policies as a means for correcting biases.
The link back to the original parent is there to provide context for anyone who wants it.
It may be true that you didn't introduce the generic topic; flamewars arise by degrees, so the choice of where to snip them is often a little arbitrary. Usually we snip it where the discussion becomes unmoored from the topic, which might not be where the bait first appeared.