Re:Female chess players forced to wear hijab at world champi...
by bbarn on Friday September 30, 2016 @12:16AM
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The "Why is this on HN" post always seems to come with a judgmental comment.
It's on HN because hackers, as a whole, react to what they perceive to be injustice, or discrimination.
Hiding behind a nation's "norms" doesn't make it OK to tell foreign visiting women they need to hide themselves. Personally I don't think anywhere in the world a woman should be forced to do this, and it's all fine and good to try to find analogies like wearing shirts in public, but this is a step too far.
This isn't a nation saying their women have the right to do something, this is a nation saying all women should do this regardless of their beliefs, despite the majority of the world disagreeing with it.
It's on HN because hackers, as a whole, react to what they perceive to be injustice, or discrimination.
Hiding behind a nation's "norms" doesn't make it OK to tell foreign visiting women they need to hide themselves. Personally I don't think anywhere in the world a woman should be forced to do this, and it's all fine and good to try to find analogies like wearing shirts in public, but this is a step too far.
This isn't a nation saying their women have the right to do something, this is a nation saying all women should do this regardless of their beliefs, despite the majority of the world disagreeing with it.