There's hard science, and then there's pretend social science being used to justify politics. HN doesn't do politics and hopefully not SJW/hierarchy-of-victimhood drivel either. Keep civil debates raging but I don't want to see items about (insert identity politics label) + engineering... a person's melanin content, sex chromosomes or any other random identity label is irrelevant and obnoxious when discussing probabilistic data structures and algorithms. And furthermore, the people pushing forced "equality" of outcome without equity of opportunity are implicitly advocating advantaging some while disadvantaging more qualified people by collective punishment.. you know, like canceling men's sports programs because Title IX says everything has to be exactly the same and women don't want to play the same sports. Also, the outrage and offense culture, cyberdisinhibitionism, and modern social fascism of deplatforming and silencing debate tends to prevent any meaningful discussion.
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There's hard science, and then there's pretend social science being used to justify politics. HN doesn't do politics and hopefully not SJW/hierarchy-of-victimhood drivel either. Keep civil debates raging but I don't want to see items about (insert identity politics label) + engineering... a person's melanin content, sex chromosomes or any other random identity label is irrelevant and obnoxious when discussing probabilistic data structures and algorithms. And furthermore, the people pushing forced "equality" of outcome without equity of opportunity are implicitly advocating advantaging some while disadvantaging more qualified people by collective punishment.. you know, like canceling men's sports programs because Title IX says everything has to be exactly the same and women don't want to play the same sports. Also, the outrage and offense culture, cyberdisinhibitionism, and modern social fascism of deplatforming and silencing debate tends to prevent any meaningful discussion.