It really is. Too much of our industry operates on some perverse savior complex where they believe themselves the only capable humans on the planet and everyone else to be inferior in some way (often intellectually, but there’s plenty of -isms too).

These topics are incredibly salient to discuss if we’re going to improve our industry and society. Everything is political, and should be discussed in the context of technology here - which this article is highly relevant for.

Absolutely. It’s even more frustrating that I tried to post this on a few notable subreddits and got auto-flagged for not complying with domain allowlists or other meaningless rules.

The "unpolitical" is an implicit endorsement of the status quo.

Enforcing it as a rule is an explicit enablement of the status quo.

What? Discussing thought provoking news in the political world? No, flagging this thread, which is thought provoking is just insulating those who can afford to ignore it.

If HN is about intellectual curiosity, the heated disagreement in this comment section should be proof of how stimulating this topic is. But we’d rather stick our heads in the sand rather than confront what inconveniences us.