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For some time now it seems moral / christian crusaders are invading HN. All those accounts have very low karma (sometimes even negative) and insist on "values"
by bambax 4y ago
For some time now it seems moral / christian crusaders are invading HN. All those accounts have very low karma (sometimes even negative) and insist on "values" and "morals".
I wonder if it's the result of a concerted effort or the inevitable consequence of HN becoming mainstream.
It's probably the latter, but it's pretty annoying.
- mrguyorama 4y agoBasically half the US thinks this way and votes this way. If you are a conservative and upset at my comment, understand the people you vote for SIGNIFICANTLY support the religious nuts.
- bambax 4y agoI'm not from the US, don't live there (and don't vote there).
- mrguyorama 4y agoBillions of people still live under the framing that their religion is the only truth in the universe and think that prostitution is defined as some sort of bad thing according to their holy books. Even just limiting to Christians and Muslims, that's billions of diverse people who are limited to very against prostitution and sex out of wedlock. Why are you surprised that some of them can find this community?
- rendang 4y agoWhy would social conservatives and Christians, who make up a large share of US population, not be expected to be present among HN commenters?
- bambax 4y agoBecause they weren't in the past. And because HN is an international forum for tech geeks; I think social conservatives and Christians are underrepresented in tech; and I am quite certain the kind of social conservatism and "Christianity" that exist in the US doesn't exist in the same proportion, or with the same beliefs, elsewhere. In Europe for instance, so-called "pro-lifers", while they exist, make up a small minority of the public.
- rendang 4y agoFair, but if the underrepresentation is 50% say, half of a large number is not tiny. Tech nowadays is a major career path akin to law or medicine, less of the niche idiosyncratic subculture it was 20 years ago. Anecdotally, my socially conservative church is full of FAANG developers & one of our lay pastors is a highly-cited ML researcher
- krapp 4y agoHacker culture is full of exactly the kind of people it used to despise.
- Dma54rhs 4y agoIn Europe in many countries left wing feminists fight against prostitution, I'm not sure what you're talking about.