You need to fix how you address other community members. The guidelines ask us to comment civilly and substantively, and what you're doing here is rhetorical bullying.

Don't you want us to have thoughtful and insightful conversations about this? Stop sabotaging it.

> Sorry, my dude, but I know where your car is parked.

You don't know anything about me. I think I'm actually a pretty alright guy, and I treat everyone with as much respect as they treat me.

It's wonderful that on a post about why some people are afraid to bring politics to work, I'm being witchhunted now because I answered, in a completely non-partisan way, why that might be.

I regret even making my post. Discourse is impossible anymore.

I think that there are two lines here that are easy to conflate. 1) That the golden rule "treat others as you would like to be treated" is sufficient to make you A Good Person, or at least not complicit in any sort of -ism.

2) That, as (assumption here) a member of the ethnic/cultural majority in tech, there's some obligation to speak up for those who may not be able to do so themselves - the social dynamics are different when a member of the 'in' group calls the group out on exclusionary behavior, as opposed to when an 'out' group-er does so.

On some level, this is a cultural divide, and at least from my perspective, we're perhaps realizing that the first line is insufficient - plenty of repugnant norms and behaviors have been implicitly approved by mainstream society despite everyone conforming to the 'golden rule'.

What's happening here isn't "witch hunting," it's discussion on a forum.

You may be uncomfortable being questioned or critiqued, but lamentably that is par for the course when posting to a discussion forum.

There may also be fora where what you say isn't called into question; this, I don't think, is one of them.

Discourse is certainly possible.