I often flag discussions not because I agree or disagree with any particular aspect of the post, but because the discussion itself has turned unproductive and is unlikely to change. I think that's one way flagging is supposed to be used, technically. I give people the benefit of the doubt that they are doing the same thing.
If there's a place on the internet where people can discuss all topics without it turning into a flamewar, or a series of people just saying things near each other without actually discussing anything, I would like to go there instead of HN. But those places are increasingly rare on the open web!
It’s not that people are against diversity and inclusion.
It’s that they are against the insincere and awkwardly forced pushes for diversity and inclusion by companies. Forcing behaviors and pushing insincerity leads to noncompliance and resentment.
The best type of diversity is, and always will be, organic.
And when organic processes produce no diversity, what then? Throw our hands up and call it insincerity on the part of anyone who decries the situation?
Jokes aside, the answer to that question is highly circumstantial. If you live in a very culturally/racially/ethnically homogeneous area, there probably won’t be much of a push for diversity because the place isn’t diverse by nature.
Lack of diversity is not the problem that western society, namely the US, would have you believe.
> If you live in a very culturally/racially/ethnically homogeneous area
What a crock. I don't mean to play identity politics but I can't imagine someone who isn't a white man saying this. I've never seen a tech team with a reasonable gender split, and I can assure you no one is living in a genderally homogenous area.
Lack of diversity is a humungous problem in western society, and while I agree the place to address that may not be a company trying to execute merit-based hiring, it's clear if an entire system outputs only one category of person as successful, that system has deep biases and would be ripe for improvement by including other categories of person.
In my experience those with knee-jerk reactions like this to hot issues with heavily echoed (in mainstream/social media) "right" and "wrong" moral stances are very impressionable. Perhaps investigate further before fleeing.
Ouch. Any readers have favorite HN-like forums where this doesn't happen?