[higerordermap]

It's unfair to lump most with "left" though. There are quite a number of people on this site which call out sjw bullshit, for instance. I think HN is still much better than tech twitter which is full of woke feminists hating about white straight males and getting away with it. (And I say this I am not even white).

[weakfish]

The wording you use is very inflammatory for no real reason, it makes it kind of hard to engage.

[matthewmacleod]

There's definitely a real reason there, which is the same one that people from my parents' generation had when waving around the phrase "political correctness gone mad". I guess you'd rather ironically call it "virtue signalling". But I agree there's not likely to be much chance of having a constructive discussion with someone taking that approach.

[weakfish]

Is virtue signaling ironic? I'm not sure what you mean by that point. However, I agree that it's a big turnoff to engage with someone using that language because it seems as if they already have their mind made up.

[natchy]

“inflammatory” is an opinion

[chillacy]

You can measure inflammatory if you have a big enough crowd, even though whether or not something offends is up to each individual.

[weakfish]

I think it's fairly obvious that name calling and whatnot aren't the basis for a constructive conversation.