Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by econ 14 days ago
People don't talk about it anymore. The list of things you can't discuss is quite long and it has many items that logically shouldn't be on it.

You can say for example that the sum of genetics, culture, finances and upbringing will have different results.

Make it ever so slightly more specific and the water gets hot fast.

The retaliation for different topics is also different and has little relation with how offending the topic might be (if at all) 100 people might call your employer or you will simply be considered a lunatic.

The worse part of politics is that any real opinion will cost votes. You can't really say anything. Everything is heresy at that point.