Of all the communities I am a part of the assumption of privelege is strongest om HN. I don't entirely understand why because startups themselves irl are not like that in my experience. I actually stopped coming here for a long time because of the way women are normally spoken about, but started back again recently when I wanted to better understand what was happening with DOGE etc.
Telling someone to stop anti intellectual bigotry is aggressive but it’s not name calling.
Nearly everyone is susceptible to spreading bigotry. Telling them to stop is not the same thing as “calling them a bigot”.
I hear you on the tone but I strongly believe people should be able to call out bigotry without retribution. I will continue to do so in a non-aggressive style. If you still want to ban the account then c'est la vie.
"Cut the anti intellectual bigotry" is just way too aggressive for HN comments. If you say you didn't mean it that way, I believe you, but then the issue is that you (and I don't mean you personally—almost everyone does this) are greatly underestimating the provocation in your comments.
You've broken the site guidelines badly in this thread. We end up having to ban accounts that do that, regardless of how wrong other commenters are or you feel they are.
If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it. In particular, please don't post any more personal attacks and please don't perpetuate flamewars.
