That's a common resort of people who've broken the civility rules here, but the rules have nothing to do with "the narrative". They have to do with protecting civil, substantive discussion. Those things ought to be orthogonal; that they aren't seems to be a side effect of people feeling that they needn't treat others well if their position goes against the mainstream. An odd supposition.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12162795 and marked it off-topic.