This is not quite the same thing as "politics" but when it comes to certain issues under discussion I often feel like I'm forced into a choice between: * A une

This is not quite the same thing as "politics" but when it comes to certain issues under discussion I often feel like I'm forced into a choice between: * A unequivocal angry response, * Leaving the community entirely. This is because on certain topics there are loud elements of the "hacker" community whom I disagree with so fundamentally that I simply cannot tolerate their viewpoints going unchallenged. I've been able to mostly unlearn this reaction when it comes to actual politics, but on race or (much more frequently, here) gender issues it remains fully in effect. To a certain extent, I'm at wits' end: I get a lot of value out of HN but when a topic like http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2571874 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2571874 comes up it absolutely destroys my mood and my productivity. And there's no good answer -- stories like that absolutely should be discussed; it's just that the discussion so often disgusts me... (Edit: all of that rambling is to say that politics stories naturally have the same siren call of some sort of 'moral' obligation to speak up for one's point of view.)