It's not ironic at all. Nor is it hypocritical. Going to a news site called Hacker news is not the same thing as defending a word that has been misconstrued an

It's not ironic at all. Nor is it hypocritical. Going to a news site called Hacker news is not the same thing as defending a word that has been misconstrued and then absorbed by the general public to mean something entirely different. The more you defend the word, the more you separate yourself from general society.