Yes, people are flagging the story, plus it set off the flamewar detector, plus we also downweighted it for a while.

It's clear that this is one of those "will be reposted no matter what" cases, so I've turned off the flags and the flamewar detector and reduced the downweight.

It's a contentious discussion (look at all the dead comments at the bottom), which it's bound to be. Pretty sure that leads to down-ranking.