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by gergles 5186 days ago
Yet amazingly the 40,000 "OH HAI SEXISM" posts that blanketed HN for the last week don't?
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That's at least arguing about whether or not the tech industry has a widespread issue. This is singling out one guy (whose best-known work already had a mixed reputation among nerds). Even if it turns out Mozilla really is being run by a reactionary religious zealot, it doesn't seem to affect their technical direction nor the use of their donated funds.
The guidelines http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html specifically call out politics as being off-topic.