Makes me sad. I love reading HN, but I wish it wasn't such an monocultural echo chamber of white males that get all riled up every time a woman says something slightly controversial on twitter.
Would you like one of us to pretend this is okay so there's an illusion of a debate that doesn't need to happen?
Hiring is kind of a big deal (it determines people's livelihoods, careers, etc) so people take it seriously. Hiring is not the place for an angry hateful racist (and possibly illegal) rant.
Look, I actually speak differently on this website than I do in real life. In real life, I use a lot of slang and Spanglish. Im aware of the monoculture you're talking about. But to me, it was always a nerd/geek monoculture, not a white one. I guess now that you and others have forced me to think that it's a homogenous white male culture, I subconsciously think that to.
I think that it is extremely important to hire people from diverse backgrounds, especially when hiring journalists. That's what I believe she was trying to do, and that's something that we should be supportive of.
Some of us are fragile so we are willing to eat up anything that hints at discrimination against men.