I appreciated the distinction to help form my own opinion. I believe there are varying degrees of scummy-ness and appreciate someone not trying to "decide for me"
I feel like your “teach the controversy” response just reinforces my point.
Who hurt you?
I can't believe that "Nuance is unacceptable" is the position you really want to go with.
I don't follow the logic.
I will note your posts are reading as activism/consensus building, which gets people removed from hackernews. So you might want to dial it down.