Usually when there's an ongoing divisive story, follow-up posts get flagged by a coalition of (1) users who don't like the article because they favor the opposing view, and (2) users who are just fatigued by all the articles on the topic. In most cases the first group alone isn't enough to win the tug-of-war with upvotes.

Moderators sometimes turn off flags when an article is good and the discussion seems able to be substantive (enough). That's arguably the case here, so we'll try overriding the flags. (This is not an endorsement of the article.)