[wyldfire]

I think the significant change is that the tech community is growing to include other subcultures. And some of those subcultures bring new/different focuses on what's important to them.

Also, I think there's some amount of momentum behind the legitimate disclosure of unacceptable behavior. The fact that many women and minorities lately feel unashamed in admitting that they were oppressed/assaulted/etc is a net win. The perpetrators of that oppression and violence should get justice. But it probably brings with it some risk of attention-seekers and easily-offended folks too.

[aikah]

> The perpetrators of that oppression and violence should get justice

I don't see any justice in that story. Justice means the accused should have the right to defend himself and be confronted to his accuser. He often doesn't as "political tribunals" have already decided he already is guilty. Don't conflate "justice" with witch hunts.

[wyldfire]

Maybe you misunderstood what I meant. "The perpetrators of that oppression ..." referred to "... legitimate disclosure of unacceptable behavior...". So, concrete examples could help clear this up: disclosures of sexual assault [1] and occasions when law enforcement have killed unarmed minorities [2].

I referred to the fact that many women no longer feel embarassment or shame that would prevent an attacker from getting justice, or minorities with a policeman's justice -- I said that was a "net win." In earlier decades these legitimate evils might have gone un-punished, and that's bad.

But unfortunately with that good comes the potential bad that some folks are emboldened to cry wolf.

[1] https://www.buzzfeed.com/katiejmbaker/heres-the-powerful-let...

[2] http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-police-deaths-20160707-s...

[douche]

Hmm, so increasing diversity increases the level of friction and strife within a particular culture... What a novel concept.

Eventually the people who just want to build shit and get things done will have to splinter off again and go back into an uncool cultural ghetto.

[nopit]

This is my worry as well.