alt Hacker News> If you haven't been paying attention to the various bigots trying to rouse hate from their position of technology prominence, then I don't think my post will convince you of anything
You think your post is not one trying to rouse hate against specific people?
You ever come across the word thoughtcrime? You think telling perhaps 50% or the population they "have no business being here" is inclusive? A large number of the classes who you pretend to be representing actually don't buy into oppression olympics.
You want to write a screed against the owner of X? Sure, go ahead. But your screed is against anyone who doesn't care about verifying a person's race, gender or sexual orientation.
You're presenting an extremist "you're with us or against us" view; some of us who aren't racist, sexist, misogynist, etc also don't want to have to pass your purity test.
Some people just want the puritannicals to leave everyone alone.
> You think your post is not one trying to rouse hate against specific people?
It's taken me a while to understand what I find so abhorrent about this frequent rhetorical device and I finally realized it's just plain ol' false equivalence.
Hating nazis for the harm they've caused is, in fact, just fine.
Hating someone because they were born jewish/black/gay/whatever, is not fine.
Pretending that people out here advocating for deportation/camps/imprisonment for the crimes of skin color or religion or whatever else is the same moral equivalence as those people just wanting to be left alone is leaving the realm of stupidity and verging on malice.
> Some people just want the puritannicals to leave everyone alone
It's, uh, "weird" that your problem isn't with the bigotry and bigots but with the people who point it out.