This is meta and nonscientific but if you just search for the word 'racial' on HN, there seems to be a relatively higher proportion of posts where there are mor

This is meta and nonscientific but if you just search for the word 'racial' on HN, there seems to be a relatively higher proportion of posts where there are more comments than points. Way more so at least than 'politics' or 'covid'. The crowd here seems usually pretty split left and right, even if it skews in general towards various forms of libertarianism. Why do we think that studies and discussions about race are fundamentally more controversial? It seems like when we are discussing the long term consequences and effects of enslaving an entire race not 200 years ago, we should all share some humanity about it, whether you want socialism or less government. I don't know if I can account for this disparity in the current political miliue, what is it then about HN and race? Is it just something about these discussions that are particularly irksome to libertarian types? If so, why?