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>>capabl+(OP)
"...whether the site’s original tech-intellectual culture can be responsibly scaled up to make space for a more inclusive, wider-ranging vision of technology."

I don't come to Hacker News for "inclusive" technology - which these days appear to be a politically-correct euphemism for forced diversity.

I come to Hacker News for discussions on technology.

Anything that prioritizes the "inclusive" nature of technology, versus the "technology" itself, is irrelevant to me, and has nothing to do with the main interests of the site (hacking and technology) and should be downvoted. Keep politics and social politics out from Hacker News.

>>knight+4G1
Including people is not political. People are not being political by being different and wanting to participate. People are not being political for wanting to make technology that works for people who have different needs related to their abilities or identities.

Technology doesn't happen in a vacuum. It is made by people and for people. People who are not all the same.

YOU are being political by pretending that including people is political.

>>mcdonj+dV1
I feel like this might be a little intellectually dishonest. I think we all know that this comment was never about blind people and their screen readers, but the subversive identity politics that are being played in the name of diversity and inclusion.