Hacker Newsnew | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submitlogin

You nailed it. Twitter is filled with a lot of interesting content, but the dominant "trending" topics are basically navel-gazing activists masquerading as journalists obsessing about their own identity (if they are in a favored group) or desperately using some sacred cow identity group as a tool to gain status with their peers.

I deleted my account after I simply asked a question one day in a thread with a prominent startup founder who happened to be a Black woman. Someone else on her thread had stated that she was worried about encouraging her daughter to learn to code because she felt that nobody would hire her "due to the extreme racism that was obviously prevalent in tech." I simply stated that my company was trying hard to hire folks like her daughter, and asked what we could do to make people like her feel welcome and understand that it wasn't a problem at our company. Then the veil was pulled back on the performance. The questioner didn't really have a question. She simply posed it as a performance, and then I was mobbed with statements telling me that I needed to "Listen and let Black women speak." These narcissists aren't interested in solutions, only in gaining status in their silly, secular imitation of evangelical fundamentalist churches. Replace "Satan" with "toxic whiteness" and you have Dana Carvey's church lady on SNL in the 90's.



Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: