1. I live on the Hill in Seattle. I'm well aware of what is happening in this neighborhood.
2. The culture of Amazon's swelling ranks is not reflective of the overall tech industry. They hire so many young bros and shove money in their faces. The result is a whole bunch of rich man-children running around like they own the place. And increasingly, they do.
3. Regarding your article, it reinforces one of my points (the Hill's becoming less gay). The night life boom is absolutely a consequence of Amazon (and other tech) growth. It's frankly a disgusting scene. And it absolutely has all the ingredients to lead to increased violence toward queers in the neighborhood.

Declining as a proportion of the population as the population becomes less diverse.

For fuck's sake how was that not obviously sarcasm? Only on fucking Slashdot do people think I seriously believe that queers are queer bashing.

I'll finally get that handie I always wanted.

Must've had an Arab on board. Or someone who has expressed publicly any notion of knowing what is going on in the OT.

How do you deal when you realize you fell asleep 5 minutes before your flight started boarding, and woke up an hour after it departed?

Shit, did they finally decommission Amtrak? I was just planning a trip.

Which is sad, because I can currently cry for the cost of a ticket.

I would pay to cry on a plane.

You miscalculated. They're really terrible drinks. So it's all fair.

You're right. The deliberate attacks designed to terrorize my community don't matter because you don't care about the actual 20 people affected in the last year, nor the thousands of people who are denied the safe haven they previously found in their community. Small potatoes. So, we should just take it? Stop talking about it? Let it get worse still? When is it okay with you, a person who isn't affected, for us to stand up for our community?

You are telling me that you think words I say deserve violence against me? Why should I take your idea of human decency seriously?

That's true when considering the same crime. It's not true when considering robbery versus beatings and murder. Stealing from someone because they have something you want isn't the same as hanging them because you don't like who they are.

I agree that "hate" doesn't make the same crime worse. I don't agree that "black on black crime" is the same as a lynching or a gay bashing.

Your definition of professional sounds remarkably like slavery.

Finally! For links, you can find a ton of positive attributes of a diverse society by googling "diversity leads to", but to be more direct:

Being exposed to different cultures can cause conflict, but it can also cause reflection. In a truly diverse society, where diverse members of the society are treated as peers, people are accountable for the way they relate to members of the community who are not of the same group. Accountability is a powerful equalizer. The cases where "diversity" is represented as conflict, it's absolutely not the case that the non-dominant members are peers.

I would caution that it's inappropriate to treat as "diversity" a scenario where a dominant group is intermixed with a subject group for their exploitation. Otherwise, the Antebellum South of the US was among the most diverse societies in history. I don't think anyone would ever claim this.

People attack each other, shout slurs and publicly express wishes of others' death. Slashdot is overflowing with hostility and it's barely possible to have a coherent discussion. I can't think of another corner of the Internet where people hurl "nigger" or "fag" at each other more. I can think of few places so quick to ignore arguments and resort to generalized attacks about any perceived identity. Don't take this the wrong way, but this is one of the worst places on the Internet.