I'm also pretty far left I guess, and I'm absolutely horrified by what the right has turned into in the US (and to a lesser extent also in Europe). But that doe

I'm also pretty far left I guess, and I'm absolutely horrified by what the right has turned into in the US (and to a lesser extent also in Europe). But that doesn't mean I support such nonsense articles in academia; quite the contrary! Diversity is of course important, but not the primary goal of universities. Diversity is important because it serves the primary goal: combining inputs from all different perspectives, analysing then rationally, and making the results available to everybody. People who want to exclude people based on their race, gender, religion, cultural background or whatever should not be allowed to succeed at doing so, because that would hurt the university. But obviously this goes both ways: you can't tolerate racists who want to marginalise black students, but you also can't tolerate groups who want to push out people who don't toe their specific ideology. In any case, it's certainly not true that HN is mostly right-wing; many people here support basic income, universal health care, equality of various kinds, etc. Diversity is supported by many, it just shouldn't be weaponised to exclude people, unless they are actively hurting others. There are of course many different viewpoints here, and there are absolutely people on the right, but if I'd have to guess, I'd say most here tend towards the libertarian left.