You can reply any way you want, but it makes a whole lot more sense to respond to the main point of the parent comment. If the word racism had not been in that

You can reply any way you want, but it makes a whole lot more sense to respond to the main point of the parent comment. If the word racism had not been in that post, would you have commented on it at all? Would you have still felt the need to make a throw-away account for the comment?