It is also important to call things like they are. There is a line between speaking the truth and being apathic. Im not sure that the line has been crossed myself. He is right though, Hackernews and a lot of people are acting like this isnt a real problem. Hackernews often flags things that call attention to these matters and many users downvote people that try to call attention to what is happening.

A large segment of the human population is extremely uncomfortable with conflict. They will go to great lengths to maintain status quo in the face of insane injustice.

HN has become the home base for many of these people.

Of course, this is exactly what MLK Jr. was talking about when he described the problem caused by the "white moderate". But these people have never read MLK Jr., so it doesn't matter.