I can appreciate why you'd feel strongly about this, but HN's survival depends on us all not personalizing conflicts the way you've done here. This community is divided on all the issues that our surrounding societies are divided about. It wouldn't be reasonable to expect otherwise. That means you're going to get HN users arguing all sides of major issues.

The internet has an evil-genius ability to push all our buttons and drive us all crazy. There often isn't enough information to know for sure what anyone else means or intends, and imagination—drawn from our personal experience, i.e. data about us, not the other—fills in the gaps. This happens especially when strong feelings come up. At that point we start responding not to the real others, whom we have next to no data about, but to evil cartoon characters who vaguely resemble them. We end up feeling surrounded by our own demons.

The way out of this dynamic is for all of us to give one another the benefit of the doubt. It's a big risk, so we all need to be scrupulous about it.

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