That comment ended by being heavily upvoted. Please don't break the HN guidelines by taking threads in this inevitably tedious and offtopic direction.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14386533 and marked it off-topic.

Other than lack of evidence. Well argued anti-wikileaks comments on HN that rely on actual facts don't get down voted. That comment was neither.

It's HN.

It's easy to down-vote people who have dissenting opinions. Especially if the poster provides facts and evidence to support their opinions.

US politics is become even more of an echo chamber than ever. "My" side is on the side of light, goodness, and rationality. "Their" side is evil, sinister, and denies evidence.

The behavior on HN is just one side-effect of this.

God forbid we treat others with dignity... or assume that they're different, but honest and well-intentioned. Instead, it's better to treat them like scum, make all kinds of false accusations about them.

Not that I've seen a lot of that here.... /s

It's better to treat people well, even if you disagree with their position. It worked for a Daryl Davis:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/kkk-klu-klu...

Nothing in this one either. I find Hacker News to be militantly Democrat fairly often.