Didn’t say you were. Said it’s how you come across. It’s sadly true that it’s become a meme especially amongst many white males to hate every attempt to identify or prevent discrimination. The standard playbook is to say it’s an invasion of privacy, it’s a liberal company being too PC, and let’s start some right-wing version of the site where we can all be “free” which usually means a bunch of skinhead wannabes.

I apologize for being rude but to be honest it’s pretty frustrating that people would be so selfish as to make a big stink about it instead of just opting out. Do you know how many times Facebook or LinkedIn has opted me into research and sharing that I didn’t opt in to and no one even bats an eye most the time. Now that the research is about discrimination instead of advertising profits it’s some big invasion of privacy that we need to delete our accounts over. Not to mention that Facebook and LinkedIn typically don’t let you opt out at all.