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by rectang 1984 days ago
> Last time I was in the Rust discord, their channel logo was literally the rust logo over a the gay flag with lines for black and brown people added. Wtf?

This sort of hateful comment is why the tech industry is a horrible place. Even in the best pockets of the tech industry, like HN, intolerance is treated as a legitimate enough perspective to be worthy of endless debate.

And then people furrow their brows over why tech's demographics are so warped. eye roll

There's no fix, no hope. The tech tradition of "open debate" guarantees an endless supply of comments like this.