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Yeah, it’s almost as if a Christian-backed conservative political coalition dismantled the welfare state and stopped new services from being put in place or something...

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Please don't take HN threads further into flamewar, regardless of how provocative another comment is.

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Arguably the second blow does more damage to the container.

As a moderator, is there a reason you're dinging the person making the second blow, but not the first?

A few reasons I suppose: the first comment was already dinged by the community; the second comment upped the ante considerably; and I was insufficiently aware of how inflammatory the topic is. By which I mean: I was well aware of how inflammatory the topic is, and even that was not enough. So I learned something in this thread.

dang was right to ding me. I was bullied as a kid by right-wing Christians espousing these kinds of talking points and projected that lingering resentment into this conversation. Apologies.

Thank you for reacting so kindly.

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