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Was it the harshness of the pointed question in the last sentence or was it just engaging in a clearly flame bait comment thread?

• dang 2y ago
  I'd say the first sentence was unduly aggressive and name-calling, and the question at the end was a personal attack.
  • kortilla 2y ago
    Telling someone to stop anti intellectual bigotry is aggressive but it’s not name calling. Nearly everyone is susceptible to spreading bigotry. Telling them to stop is not the same thing as “calling them a bigot”. I hear you on the tone but I strongly believe people should be able to call out bigotry without retribution. I will continue to do so in a non-aggressive style. If you still want to ban the account then c'est la vie.
    • ViktorRay 2y ago
      I think perhaps you may not have seen that the person you were responding to also broke the site guidelines and dang warned him to stop as well. dang responded to one of his other comments in the thread.
    • dang 2y ago
      "Cut the anti intellectual bigotry" is just way too aggressive for HN comments. If you say you didn't mean it that way, I believe you, but then the issue is that you (and I don't mean you personally—almost everyone does this) are greatly underestimating the provocation in your comments.