It set off the flamewar detector. I've turned that off now. I only saw this thread by chance and almost didn't look, because the title made the piece sound lik

It set off the flamewar detector. I've turned that off now. I only saw this thread by chance and almost didn't look, because the title made the piece sound like a flamebait blog post. Fortunately I saw newyorker.com beside the title and looked more closely.