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Like rust - I gave it a whirl, didn’t like it, think it’s overrated. Mention that here and it’s like you tried to shoot the Pope.
Is it? Find any thread about COVID-19, the opinions are staggeringly on the left.
I can come up with more examples. If you can't see the left lean you're more than likely part of it.
I find those threads tend to be dominated by people who believe vaccinations are fascism, masks don't work and Fauci and Biden cooked up COVID in Hunter's meth lab, which is currently a solidly right-wing stance. Elsewhere there are commenters calling transgendered people mentally ill pedophile groomers, or homosexuality a sin and threat to human survival, claiming systemic racial and gender bias is scientifically justified, insisting that certain races and religions, or states of the Union, simply cannot coexist, still calling Biden's election stolen, worshiping the glory of war in turning soft men hard and the purity of the free market in weeding the weak and lazy out of society, and ranting about wokist CRT cultural Marxists burning the world down.
I think the bias you see here really depends on what threads you tend to read, what you tend to notice (which is probably more often than not what you disagree with,) and who shows up first to ruin them.
It's funny because you're describing a microcosm of comments as if they are the majority, and ignoring legitimate critiques. I can't say I'm surprised your knee-jerk reaction is to defend the echo chamber, but here we are. Thanks for proving my point so quickly!
When did I ever claim what I was describing was the majority? The entire point of my comment was to point out that bias is relative. Of course what I was describing is a microcosm. So is the "left wing bias" you described upthread. Hacker News consists of numerous microcosms. Of course you only consider one side to be an echo chamber, and yours to be "legitimate critiques." Which apparently I'm ignoring, despite you not having provided any, of anything. So it goes.
I won't belabor the point because I suspect most of the effort you put into my comment went into copying and pasting it.
When you said "I find those threads tend to be dominated by people who believe..."
> Of course what I was describing is a microcosm
Now you're contradicting yourself. Something that dominates cannot be described as a microcosm of the whole.
The left bias I describe _is_ what dominates most threads here. You can act like something doesn't exist, but it's not going to disappear from reality.