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Like Peter Thiel, Tech Workers Feel Alienated by Silicon Valley ‘Echo Chamber’

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370 points sillypuddy | 1 comments | 18 Feb 18 16:50 UTC | HN request time: 0.223s | source
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jstewartmobile ◴[18 Feb 18 17:04 UTC] No.16406941[source]▶
I hate to have sympathy for the devil here, but I see their point.

Hackernews is living proof. Pre-election, you could voice a contrary opinion here and have a discussion. Post-election, even the faintest wrongthink shibboleth gets silently downvoted into oblivion.

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chappi42 ◴[18 Feb 18 18:58 UTC] No.16407529[source]▶
It's the same in Germany. You voice that the many refugees (with often very conservative religious and patriarchal views) pose problems and, päng, you are a nazi.

A balanced discourse is (was) no longer possible. (It's getting a bit better again after some ramnifications became plain to see in some every-day situations).

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1. praulv ◴[18 Feb 18 19:09 UTC] No.16407609[source]▶
Shall we start with the harassment and domestic violence problem? Or do you want me to pull out the statistics on "native" European populations. At least they don't go shoot up schools....