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by x86_64Ubuntu 1222 days ago
In defense of HN, the audience has been staunchly "libertarian" and all that entails for years. So being anti- something that seems to threaten the social power hierarchy is the norm. Before the every-day-anti-DEI posts, it was an Elon-fest were folks would tout "free speech" and other stuff. After Elon got Twitter and his free-speech absolutism turned out to be a disposable talking point, the HN audience largely moved on.