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I was assuming you might have referred to the covid-19 epidemic. And if that were the case then yes, I definitely do think there should also be other topics at
by Delk 6y ago
I was assuming you might have referred to the covid-19 epidemic. And if that were the case then yes, I definitely do think there should also be other topics at the top. It's not like we're starving for news, or like feeding ourselves more is going to do much good after a certain point. Too much of it just becomes noise.
Of course you might be referring to the issues of racism and police brutality. While those -- especially racism -- are significant matters on the global scale, the current events are mostly a U.S. thing, and not everyone is American.
I agree those topics should be getting high visibility regardless, but I don't necessarily agree with the idea that we should just drop everything else we were doing and are interested in, or that it would be automatically sad if the top posts on a tech-oriented international forum don't happen to revolve around the current hot topic in the U.S.
- adamsea 6y agoWe could talk about systemic racism in the tech industry ... And, that's, just like, your opinion, man. Clearly a lot of people all around the world agree with me that systemic racism is worth discussing, based on the various protests in Paris, etc. I certainly am not arguing anyone has to agree with me. But to deny the validity of the discussion?
- Delk 6y agoI'd like you to point out where I denied the validity of "the" discussion, or any discussion. I disagreed with the idea that a single topic needs to be always at the top, or that it's somehow a bad thing if it isn't, or that it should be to the exclusion of other things. That's not at all the same as denying the validity of discussion about anything else unless you live in a black and white world. I literally said "I agree those topics should be getting high visibility regardless", and now I'm apparently "denying the validity of the discussion".