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You're going to get downvoted for this. The same comment from the opposite perspective wouldn't. This community likes to think of itself as enlightened. I wond

• dogma1138 11y ago
  HN is more liberal and progressive in the true meaning of the word rather than the SJW interpretation of it these days. While plenty of people still use the downvote button as a censorship tool (and in HN it's actual censorship due to 10 votes kill) many have stopped and you see much more non-politically correct arguments being accepted and debated on HN these days. Downvoting is also an often herd like mentality once you go grey you are most likely to be vote killed or close to it within minutes. But on the other hand there are much more -1 <-> +1 fights these days, pretty much the only thing that will get you vote killed these days is talking about "privacy" related things and even that is more open to a debate than it was even 6 months ago.