It is both wild to me and totally predictable that a reasonable question like this would get downvoted on HN.
If people are interested in this particular phenomenon, I really recommend Mills's "The Racial Contract". [1] A contractarian philosopher, Mills wrote about how the literal centuries of social contract philosophy somehow never got around to mentioning race. His well-supported conclusion is that there was always a second implicit social contract, which he calls the racial contract. But it has an epistemological dimension where one of the rules is that we avoid discussing, avoid even seeing the racial contract.
This sort of downvoting of even basic questions, let alone answers, is exactly part of that epistemological erasure that he talked about.
If people are interested in this particular phenomenon, I really recommend Mills's "The Racial Contract". [1] A contractarian philosopher, Mills wrote about how the literal centuries of social contract philosophy somehow never got around to mentioning race. His well-supported conclusion is that there was always a second implicit social contract, which he calls the racial contract. But it has an epistemological dimension where one of the rules is that we avoid discussing, avoid even seeing the racial contract.
This sort of downvoting of even basic questions, let alone answers, is exactly part of that epistemological erasure that he talked about.
[1] https://www.amazon.com/Racial-Contract-Charles-W-Mills/dp/08...