Right. It's a topical joke based on the ambiguity of your terminology and current events (and probably did not deserve a downvote).

Further, the history of persecution of magic pracitioners would qualify them for DEI outreach. So it works either way. ;)

<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33295889>

It's rare for jokes to play well: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7522885>.

Particularly where it's not clear whether or not someone's making a joke, or is merely misinterpreting language. A common occurrence where many participants' first language is not English.

And especially where the joke itself runs into a tired political fracture.