Look at HN - if you express something even a taste conservative, you will absolutely be downvoted.

Which is ultimately just silencing the messenger; the very behavior that backfires... sometimes figuratively, yesterday literally. You'd think free speech advocates would be smarter than to ever use the downvote button on a legitimate opinion, seems like a contradiction.

Edit, for the reply: > "Post a far left soundbite opinion like 'all consumption is unethical under capitalism' and you will get downvoted just as handily as 'I wasn't hired because I'm white'"

This is actually a bad example, because we just got Ames vs Ohio, eliminating the higher burden of proof that white individuals needed to present when claiming discrimination 9-0. As such, there is a possibility that complaint was factual and is going to be proven soon, where the other is purely ideological.

Edit 2: Nice undocumented edit to make it a "trans employee" instead. You've just openly admitted you would've downvoted a legitimate opinion by claiming it was illegitimate, then edited your comment afterwards to fix the weakness, proving my original point.

There are plenty of conservative and right leaning people here with strong opinions that don't get downvoted. They tend to stick to traditional conservative principles that are backed by rational thought and actual work and research.

Populist ideas, un-backed propaganda and blind followership of both the right and the left are not popular here.

Post a far left soundbite opinion like "all consumption is unethical under capitalism" and you will get downvoted just as handily as "I wasn't hired because they needed a trans employee".

For disclosure: I did change white to trans employee approximately ~90 seconds after the original post, and not in response to his edit (I did not see OPs edit until now, 1 hour after the original post). The sentence he is so upset about is meant as an illustrative example of an inflammatory viewpoint. It appears from the inflammation that my point was well made. Thank you.

For those wondering, I changed "I wasn't hired because I'm white" to what it reads above. My reason for the change was to make the statement absurdly inflammatory, and not subject to the exact sort of irrelevant (irrelevant to the point being made, that is) debate that OP is trying to force. If you look at my comment history you will see that I edit almost all of my comments. I have the bad habit of proofreading after posting, and editing for clarity. Not trying to do a "gotcha" because the point I am making is still logically identical.

If you want, substitute it for the completely unbacked "litterboxes in schools" right wing meme, and the point still stands. The point being: HN tolerates many viewpoints across the spectrum. HN does not tolerate stupid, and especially when it is stupid wrapped in culture war bottom scrapings. That is what will get you downvoted.

The most heavily user censoring I've seen here is anything Elon critical.

Lmao HN leans tech bro right.