| People with passionate politics usually perceive Hacker News as favoring their enemies. This is a cognitive bias: the comments we dislike make a stronger impression than the comments we agree with, so it feels like the community is against us. In reality, it's a large community with a wide spectrum. The people with opposite politics notice the opposite comments and so have the opposite picture of HN. Here are some examples from what I assume is the opposite side to yours: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21192430 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20956287 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20645202 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20644122 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20438487 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20384662 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20202305 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19912334 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19471335 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19325297 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18664482 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18544961 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18189135 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17197581 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17002125 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16997697 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16947646 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16397133 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16134205 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16085548 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16061393 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16058468 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16022748 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15937781 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15752730 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15585780 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15388778 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15307915 Sorry for bombarding you with ridiculously many links, but maybe that makes the point better. |