This probably isn’t going to get read, but the HN comments to this post really are off putting. They show Reddit levels of naivety. Just spewing further insults and discrimination with no attempt in putting yourself in the author’s position. And enough straw to feed a horse (as someone else said the other day). I came to HN to get away from this sort of thing, but the Zeitgeist here seems to be just the same.
So for one, if you ignore the political connotations and ignore the author's seeingly strong identity, the argument is absurd. That's going to attract some ridicule here, regardless of what they guidelines say.
Secondly, yeah I think your expecting a bit much at least from a thread like this. You can go back and look at, for example, the caste discrimination threads from recent. They aren't much better.
This is a topic that 1) hacker news commenters can't resist and 2) is totally inappropriate for hacker news. Hence the flags.
Someone getting fired or disciplined at a big tech company always attracts comments here, not always good ones.
The reason certain topics are prohibited here is because even good commenters can get in too deep and end up writing bad comments. I hope people mostly don't hold my bad comments against me for too long, and I try to do the same for them.
The most off-putting thing is when some commenters incoherently go from arguing religion is a private matter and should not be revealed even when asked, to arguing "belief in a dude in the sky" is a pathology or "crazy" (first, nobody asked. And you're not a doctor). Seems very narrow minded.
Or is this just a case of „a loud few“?