alt Hacker News> Last time it was opposing LGBTQ and racial discrimination and now it is technology.
The attacks on and hate of trans people are on the rise. There seem to be literal strategy of preventing blacks and women from career rise in military and government. And all of these are enabled and helped by tech. The radicalization and hate grows due to our algorithms.
> tech industry keeps threatening the status quo again and again
Tech industry is the status quo, it represents people with good jobs and high status looking down on everyone else. It was like that for decades now. Tech industry is all about creating monopolies, consolidating and killing the competition.
> when the historical trend points to optimism instead
It does not. We failed to manage climate change. The world is moving from stability to chaos, toward more wars. The politics of several countries is turning toward openly fascists. The powerful are less and less accountable, amassing more and more power. Corruption is at unprecedented levels.
Good times already were. We are going toward bad times and things will start improving only after they will get really bad first.
> The attacks on and hate of trans people are on the rise. There seem to be literal strategy of preventing blacks and women from career rise in military and government. And all of these are enabled and helped by tech.
Attacks on trans people are on the rise because the poltical demands trans people make in the explicit name of trans rights necessarily entail enlisting the state to help destroy gender distinctions most people care about; and a lot of people have now realized this and are explicitly fighting back against trans demands.
Blacks and women have historically benefitted from explicit racial and gender preferences in government and military careers which usually entailed having explicitly lower standards for these demographic groups, because poltical activists for these groups fought against any standards-based advancement process that resulted in noticeably few women or blacks coming out the end of it. This has made enough people mad that they were willing to elect high level polticians who promised to destroy the gender and race-based affirmative action systems in government careers, which looks like "preventing blacks and women from career rise" from the perspective of a pro-affirmative-action person.
Both of these phenomena are contemporary American poltical currents, and don't have much to do with the tech industry in and of itself.