> This is interesting. Why does #BlackLivesMatter stoke heated division among HN users? And what does that say about the community that has been built here? It

> This is interesting. Why does #BlackLivesMatter stoke heated division among HN users? And what does that say about the community that has been built here? It would stoke heated division because different users see that slogan has having different connotations. What it says about the community is that it's actually a fairly diverse community, at least in terms of their beliefs (and very likely in other respects). > ...Software is growing to touch every part of human existence, and it's probably actually dangerous for hackers to traipse through life ignorant of that fact... HN does not need to hang up a #BLM banner in a cheap act of virtue signaling for us as hackers to grapple with the impact we have on society. Indeed, such an act would impede productive conversations.