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		randyrand on June 7, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A List of Hacker News's Undocumented Features and ... I find it interesting that politics and diversity each have their own section on here. I always considered diversity a political topic.

chaorace on June 7, 2020 [–]

I suspect that it's more about optics than practicality. Not all diversity topics are political, but most diversity topics are probably outside of what the mods believe to be within the purview of HN.

Making it a separate category bin bypasses all of the hemming and hawing over particulars.

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