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I can't downvote you but I'm sure you will very soon because this kind of idiotic and misogynistic comment is something that doesn't belong here, or anywhere re

by lgl 5y ago

I can't downvote you but I'm sure you will very soon because this kind of idiotic and misogynistic comment is something that doesn't belong here, or anywhere really. If you think that an effort of hundreds of scientist and dozens of scientific institutions that took many years to bring us an unprecedented image of the universe was hyped or staged to make a single woman scientist insta-famous, you have largely misread the large majority of people that read hackernews. Nobody in their right mind will support this opinion, grow up.

zalequin 5y ago
You’re either immature or brainwashed by the propaganda, because in the last decade the forceful advancement of diversity, social “justice” and cancel culture (to mention only a few things that are part of the same, larger, thing) have been more than clear - it’s become nauseating and tiresome. To pretend that we don’t promote women for the sake of promoting women is like saying we don’t hire asians, blacks, and jews because they’re asians, blacks, and jews. Of course we do.
vishho 5y ago
All the downvoters were male. You are a male. And I am a girl BTW. You got so riled up, because deep down you know it is true. Even she knows the majority of the attention had to do with her gender. I am not sexist. I usually, like the question poser, don't see gender or race. But then it is pushed by activists (see Grace Hopper replacing lena.jpg) who want to have their cake and eat it too: they judge by gender and race, but you should judge without. I am done doing that. If you see Neil deGrass Teison added to the speaker list, you just know somewhere someone went: this panel lacks diversity. So Teison is de diversity pick, not the merrit pick. Just like Katie was highlighted, while using software written by men, who got lots of flack online, because clearly they were non-inclusive to women when building Scipy and Numpy for free.

by lgl 5y ago

zalequin 5y ago

You’re either immature or brainwashed by the propaganda, because in the last decade the forceful advancement of diversity, social “justice” and cancel culture (to mention only a few things that are part of the same, larger, thing) have been more than clear - it’s become nauseating and tiresome. To pretend that we don’t promote women for the sake of promoting women is like saying we don’t hire asians, blacks, and jews because they’re asians, blacks, and jews. Of course we do.

vishho 5y ago

All the downvoters were male. You are a male. And I am a girl BTW. You got so riled up, because deep down you know it is true. Even she knows the majority of the attention had to do with her gender. I am not sexist. I usually, like the question poser, don't see gender or race. But then it is pushed by activists (see Grace Hopper replacing lena.jpg) who want to have their cake and eat it too: they judge by gender and race, but you should judge without. I am done doing that. If you see Neil deGrass Teison added to the speaker list, you just know somewhere someone went: this panel lacks diversity. So Teison is de diversity pick, not the merrit pick. Just like Katie was highlighted, while using software written by men, who got lots of flack online, because clearly they were non-inclusive to women when building Scipy and Numpy for free.