Your target audience is still going to read his name, have an intuitive negative feeling, and associate that negative feeling with your article.
HN everyone
Nope, just emotional to varying degrees. If you think that people don't ever have emotional responses to things or are always able to separate those emotional responses from their interpretations of things, I am really curious what life experiences led you to that conclusion. It differs drastically from my interactions with people.
I actually suspect we're misinterpreting each other.