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It seems to me that HN is the last place you can discuss this topic - it's just preemptively deleted on Reddit, Facebook, Twitter, etc.

bartread 5y ago
Tend to agree. And, yes, there are people who get really hostile with these kinds of conversations (HN is a decent-sized community, so not surprising, and it's not always the same people in every discussion so I'd like to avoid any broad brush interpretation of this remark), but I think HN is one of the last places where it is possible, online, to have difficult discussions about challenging issues. That's an incredibly important, although possibly (originally) unintended, role. On a personal note, I value hearing different perspectives, and often come away from HN discussions feeling like I've learned something, so I am against squelching it.
philipkglass 5y ago
The author of this substack has a Twitter account too, where this same article is promoted and discussed: https://twitter.com/TaraRHenley https://twitter.com/TaraRHenley This same article is also under active discussion on two subreddits: https://old.reddit.com/r/CanadaPolitics/comments/rv9kvx/tara_henley_why_i_quit_the_cbc/ https://old.reddit.com/r/CanadaPolitics/comments/rv9kvx/tara... https://old.reddit.com/r/canada/comments/rv9l8v/tara_henley_why_i_quit_the_cbc/ https://old.reddit.com/r/canada/comments/rv9l8v/tara_henley_...
boppo1 5y ago
Well, technically there's another place, but we don't go there anymore. Like Ravenholm, and for similar reasons.
citilife 5y ago
Based on the number of flagged posts I've seen on here... I think it's not preemptively deleted, but it is very self-censoring.
- CoastalCoder 5y ago
  I think I saw a few of the posts that got flagged. I'm guessing they were flagged not because of their viewpoint or argument, but because of their tone/hostility. FWIW, I do think that HN has a problem with downvoting minority viewpoints. I'm just not sure that's what happened here.
pessimizer 5y ago
There used to be more discussion about the topic from the pro-diversity, anti-racist perspective until it was temporarily banned under the euphemism of "politics."

bartread 5y ago

Tend to agree. And, yes, there are people who get really hostile with these kinds of conversations (HN is a decent-sized community, so not surprising, and it's not always the same people in every discussion so I'd like to avoid any broad brush interpretation of this remark), but I think HN is one of the last places where it is possible, online, to have difficult discussions about challenging issues. That's an incredibly important, although possibly (originally) unintended, role. On a personal note, I value hearing different perspectives, and often come away from HN discussions feeling like I've learned something, so I am against squelching it.

philipkglass 5y ago

The author of this substack has a Twitter account too, where this same article is promoted and discussed: https://twitter.com/TaraRHenley https://twitter.com/TaraRHenley This same article is also under active discussion on two subreddits: https://old.reddit.com/r/CanadaPolitics/comments/rv9kvx/tara_henley_why_i_quit_the_cbc/ https://old.reddit.com/r/CanadaPolitics/comments/rv9kvx/tara... https://old.reddit.com/r/canada/comments/rv9l8v/tara_henley_why_i_quit_the_cbc/ https://old.reddit.com/r/canada/comments/rv9l8v/tara_henley_...

boppo1 5y ago

Well, technically there's another place, but we don't go there anymore. Like Ravenholm, and for similar reasons.

citilife 5y ago

Based on the number of flagged posts I've seen on here... I think it's not preemptively deleted, but it is very self-censoring.

CoastalCoder 5y ago
I think I saw a few of the posts that got flagged. I'm guessing they were flagged not because of their viewpoint or argument, but because of their tone/hostility. FWIW, I do think that HN has a problem with downvoting minority viewpoints. I'm just not sure that's what happened here.

pessimizer 5y ago

There used to be more discussion about the topic from the pro-diversity, anti-racist perspective until it was temporarily banned under the euphemism of "politics."