My take is that political discussion/disagreements on HN are often avoided/stamped out, to prevent it taking over the site. If anything stands out about HN poli

My take is that political discussion/disagreements on HN are often avoided/stamped out, to prevent it taking over the site. If anything stands out about HN politically vs. the rest of the internet, it's mostly a "we don't talk about politics here" vibe. However, when political discussion does happen, I tend to see a very wide diversity of political opinions on HN. There's a decent number of users who are generally against any sort of feminism, LGBTQ, anti-racist views, quite alt-right feeling, and there's a decent amount of overlap between those views and libertarians. However, there's also plenty of people with very opposite opinions, very left wing, pro feminism, pro LGBTQ activism, pro anti-racist activism, etc. Kinda like Reddit, you get all ends of the political spectrum. It does have probably the most "Bay Area libertarian bro-ey vibe" of any online community I spend significant time in, and while I'm personally not a fan of that viewpoint, I also think it's only one of many viewpoints on this site. I've encountered the odd bit of really nuts racism that doesn't get moderated/removed, even if flagged (example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31722179 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31722179), but that's rare, and I think that more falls through the cracks vs. dang literally being a white supremacist.