I did not intend to start a flame war, just wanted to highligh the fact that the page uses language that is deeply offensive to me. I think I have a right to do that especially that the authors were seeking an opinion. If you think I did break any rules I am happy for you or the moderator to delete my comment.
I believe you, but the problem is that then your language is offensive to somebody else and they also think they have a right to respond in kind, and down in flames we go. That's why the site rules ask people not to take HN threads off topic in inflammatory directions. Divisive topics on the internet work that way; they consume everything else if you let them, so we can't let them.