Is this what an echo chamber looks like?
Is this what an echo chamber looks like?
The first time I heard this from the political right was about “political correctness” when I was in grade school nearly 40 years ago.
I don't see any evidence that it is any more true now than it was then.
"Fellow space travelers" is similarly exclusionary. Did you consider at all that the vast majority of people who have ever been to space have been rich white men? Not to mention the extremely problematic imperialistic undertones of the entire American space program. Anyone who isn't from a privileged background is again ostracized by your words.
Could you just read this again and think about it a little? Amazing zinger there.
Conservatives have been saying this forever, and its not coming true. They said it about gay slurs and racism and have been saying it forever about sexism. They're born to lose and can't stop complaining about how Being Appropriate at Work is so hard These Days.
Calling a mixed group "guys" isn't that big of a deal. But considering how computer science skews heavily towards men, it sounds tone deaf to double down when asked not do it. Because you'll have teams with one or two women for a dozen men, and because these women have been in groups with similar women/men ratios their whole careers, we need to make extra efforts to make sure they feel included.
It's not going to fix the gender disparity on its own. It's just a small effort to show some good will.
This is not a good hill to die on. I expected a more nuanced take on Hacker News.