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Of course it's frustrating to encounter condemnations of anything one identifies with, but by fulminating aggressively* on an inflammatory topic, you broke the site guidelines badly and predictably set off a wretched, hellish flamewar. Please don't do that on HN. We're trying for something different than internet default here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

* I'm sure you didn't mean to be or experience yourself as posting aggressively. The problem is that there isn't much difference between "defensive" and "aggressive". Mostly we experience ourselves doing the former and other people experience us doing the latter. Everyone functions this way, which is how we get flamewars where everyone feels like the others (a) started it, and (b) did worse.



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