If you want to kill the thread I can live with that. Or perhaps this is the answer to the social experiment you implicitly performed.
If he put the same quote up, and attributed it to himself, people would pay less attention to the message and spend more time dealing with their feelings regarding this stigma.
Thankfully now we have Twitter, which is an acceptable medium to post witty things you come up with, and these witticisms are by default attributed to you.