Look through my comment history, there's literally extreme transphobia 5 comments back. Go through my comments, there's on average transphobia on every page that I try to address, because it's never addressed by dang, et al. It's been present ever since I started using this site. As compared to literally every other technical community I'm apart of, HN devolves into transphobia much more often. Just because you don't see something, doesn't mean it isn't there.
>Just because you don't see something, doesn't mean it isn't there.
I'm glad we agree.
As for extreme transphobia: the one thread most immediately does have an ignorant person making stupid claims about a boy liking dolls leading to transition. But is that extreme on the spectrum? And is it not downvoted, indicating that more people disagreeed than agreed with them?
It seems, at least, that said ignoramus actually believes what they are saying, rather than trolling. In which case I think it's good to leave their comment up to let people tear it down.
Removing non-troll comments solely because we dont like them will only drive the user further into bitterness and self assuredness by not being challenged, while onlookers like me are less likely to know they exist or how wrong they are.
FWIW, thanks for the explanation of related virtualization tooling.
This comment series (it's not just one comment, and your downplaying of it and not including eg that they called adults in trans children's lives "pedophiles" borders on the verge of dishonesty) is absolutely extreme on the spectrum of transphobia: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36804092
The author should have been banned for this, not just downvoted.
I disagree, leaving up stuff like that just encourages more of it, and it shows how little HN cares about making a space that trans people can be comfortable contributing to. In fact, originally my comment was downvoted quite a bit too.
Starting about 3 pages in, there's on average some transphobia on every page of comments (find for 'trans', it turns out I've only ever said that on this site in response to transphobia hah). Not as extreme, but it becomes exhausting having to constantly defend my rights with very little help from the community at large, or dang. I've had to take a hiatus more than once because I realized I was getting bitter about the tech community, when it's really just HN.
I really do want to provide helpful and interesting comments where I can, and be apart of this community. I love parts of it so much. But as it is today, I completely understand Asahi's opinion of HN. I have to constantly choose my words very carefully for fear of angering the right-wing contingent on this site, with often no support (the most recent comment is an outlier).
