Everyone needs to make their substantive points thoughtfully and respectfully, and to remember that this is a large community with a wide range of views on divisive topics.
Strong feelings naturally arise on topics one has deep personal connections to, but that's true of many users on every topic, and moreover, such topics exist for every user. Therefore we all have to manage our own responses in order to preserve this place as a commons.
You can't post like this to HN, as the site guidelines at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html make clear. We ban accounts that do, so please don't do it again. You broke the site guidelines very badly at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36081373 as well. No more of this, please, regardless of how wrong someone is or you feel they are.
Everyone needs to make their substantive points thoughtfully and respectfully, and to remember that this is a large community with a wide range of views on divisive topics.
Strong feelings naturally arise on topics one has deep personal connections to, but that's true of many users on every topic, and moreover, such topics exist for every user. Therefore we all have to manage our own responses in order to preserve this place as a commons.