Yeah, HN is a huge “community” and even if the site design tries to flatten it to some sort of homogeneous soup[1] there’s plenty of subcultures. The people who are interested in IQ, the danger of “woke” etc. tend to congregate on those submissions where these issues are discussed, but crucially, those submissions often don’t stick around the front page that long. Neither do controversial discussions.
When these discussions do surface into mainstream HN, there will be pushback.
Yeah, HN is a huge “community” and even if the site design tries to flatten it to some sort of homogeneous soup[1] there’s plenty of subcultures. The people who are interested in IQ, the danger of “woke” etc. tend to congregate on those submissions where these issues are discussed, but crucially, those submissions often don’t stick around the front page that long. Neither do controversial discussions.
When these discussions do surface into mainstream HN, there will be pushback.
[1] I wrote a bit about this here: https://gerikson.com/m/2023/12/index.html#d03p01_sun