> "lets purge our academics of non-believers" is a practice applied in basically every society, for time immemorial. > > although calling that ""western"/civil

> "lets purge our academics of non-believers" is a practice applied in basically every society, for time immemorial. > > although calling that ""western"/civilized values" is giving western civilization more credit than it deserves > The non-charitable reading is <shrug> You asked what they were talking about; I gave a educated guess for the strongest plausible interpretation of what[0] they were saying, since it seemed non-obvious (certainly they did a poor job of expressing it if so). 0: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html