I think it's just the overwhelming trend on HN. You can see from the top comments on this post that HN is a hive of far-right edge-lordism and LARPing outrage about imagined injustices.

Edit: Then again, usually you can filter out these posts just by the topic and not click on them, which is what I usually do. But the title of this one could have gone either way so I got fooled in to clicking on it. So maybe judging by this post would give a misleading impression about the whole community on HN. I think these people just end up infecting whatever internet forums don't have the moderator capacity to get rid of all the trolls

Today I learned that free inquiry in university is far right nutjobbery.

you know how certain people talk a certain way and you can decern by their word selection basic biases they have.

people on the far right fringe on the internet have that. its like when you train dogs to sniff out drugs. its not the subject, its how its presented.