> Nothing particularly wrong with saying "outrageous" things if that's what you personally believe. You can have that opinion, but I'll just point out that the

> Nothing particularly wrong with saying "outrageous" things if that's what you personally believe. You can have that opinion, but I'll just point out that there's enough people who feel alienated if straight up racism, sexism, homophobia, antisemitism, islamophobia or endorsement of terrorist organisations are tolerated. Maybe you feel that these people just shouldn't participate on this site, but I'd much rather the bigots didn't participate. Either way, it's a choice. > Discussion here is certainly a lot better than many other places on the internet [...] No, I disagree, it's just different. People are biased everywhere, it's just that HN users tend to have different biases than, say, certain subreddits.