alt Hacker News>These aren’t opt-in issues.
I get that you are upset but they should certainly be opt-in issues, here.
If people from Kyiv, Gaza, Sudan, Syria, Congo, Venezuela or Rwanda can come here and contribute to topics of tech and curiosity without making it about their situation, then so can anyone else.
There is value in having sanctuaries. Their existence doesn't mean you have given up.
> they should certainly be opt-in issues, here.
Even if that were accepted as fact (it isn't), tech complicity in fascism and genocide shouldn't ever be among such issues.
> There is value in having sanctuaries.
There is, and there are many. But this isn't your sanctuary.
Never was, and never should be.
> If people from Kyiv, Gaza, Sudan, Syria, Congo, Venezuela or Rwanda can come here and contribute to topics of tech and curiosity without making it about their situation, then so can anyone else.
Imagine seeing 9 of your 10 children get blown up with the aid of Microsoft and Google and Amazon tech, then reading the above sentence on HN.
Really. Imagine it.
Imagine it. Imagine how you would feel. Imagine the rage. Feel it.