Thank you for your kind asking. When I had started with this article I literally stopped reading at said phrase. I guess my intetion by posting this comment on HN and not continuing reading was to show my disapproval with said phrase. I assume the author mixed his interesting article with humour in order to appeal to a broader audience. And as it goes with humour there is always someone or something being criticized (being made fun of). It seems to me, there is no way nobody will ever be offended by an article that uses humour. It's normal to me joking with people, being made fun of or make fun of people (minorities, majorities) or things. But this phrase was just too much in that particular moment. I guess there is a golden line between making fun of something but keeping a proper (or interesting) language while applying humour. John Oliver (HBO) as example makes fun of a lot of things but his tone is never like "people = shit". By having a second look at the article in order to see how other cultures might be offended I noticed that Slavic seems to be the only one being reduced that much.