You're right, that was an overly broad generalization about the readership of a public internet forum.
People on here are always willing to read stories with substantiated claims or new information. However, yet another article pointing out how there is a general gender imbalance in the workforce that matches college CS graduation rates is likely to fall flat.
So if HN is downvoting, it's probably because educated people are not liking being played by a tired narrative.
Major tech firm is worse with race/gender discrimination than the community at large? Please, ever worked blue collar and seen their hiring practices?
They are dismissive for a reason.
If the tech community wants to set a good example, great. Being played to feel like they are worse than society... to smart for that narrative.
As long as it is reported as such. Which it is not. Hence my point.
This story is unfounded? Really? We have one solid reason why they didn't run the story:
> Subsequently, several months passed with no word from them. I reached out, and was told by the writer as politely as possible, that the editor killed the story — because I wasn’t the “… archetypal Black entrepreneur to hang the story around”.
So it seems therpe1 is mainly upset that critical commentary takes place here, which is the almost lamest possible thing to complain about. The only thing that would have made it worse is to put something in like "Edit: bring on the downvotes, you know I'm right".