Well, Hacker News is a community with a tendency to embrace contrarianism. It was similar with all the COVID stuff too – articles with less mainstream takes on the negative impact of lockdowns or the benefits of Ivermectin were quite frequently and surprisingly popular.
To some extent this makes sense – there's not much interest in discussing "<thing> that everyone thought was the case turns out be correct!" and there's more meat in controversial issues.
The thing is, clickbait is popular, regardless of how much a particular community might feel they're above it. nd I'll wager there are more than a few people out there who value particular viewpoints more as a direct result of their unpopularity; we all do it sometimes, and it's a way to make yourself feel special.
Regardless of all that, I do generally agree that this obvious culture-war flame-bait Bari Weiss-backed blog post has nothing of interest to contribute to this community. But people have the right to get enthusiastic about whatever they want; best to just flag it and move on.
To some extent this makes sense – there's not much interest in discussing "<thing> that everyone thought was the case turns out be correct!" and there's more meat in controversial issues.
The thing is, clickbait is popular, regardless of how much a particular community might feel they're above it. nd I'll wager there are more than a few people out there who value particular viewpoints more as a direct result of their unpopularity; we all do it sometimes, and it's a way to make yourself feel special.
Regardless of all that, I do generally agree that this obvious culture-war flame-bait Bari Weiss-backed blog post has nothing of interest to contribute to this community. But people have the right to get enthusiastic about whatever they want; best to just flag it and move on.