People love to imagine that their uncivil and unsubstantive comments have value, and therefore that we must be against them for ideological reasons (e.g. political correctness). But that is self-flattery. It's really just that such comments lower the signal-noise ratio.
Flip all the ideological bits and none of this changes. For example, replace "right-wing" with "left-wing" upthread and that comment would be just as uncivil; replace "the PC crowd" in your own comments with whatever the opposite construct is and they would be just as unsubstantive.
I'm not arguing the comment was uncivil, I'm pointing out the irony that a comment was deemed politically incorrect on a story about the problems of political correctness.
I get the HN crowd thinks very highly of itself, but that doesn't change the irony of these comments!
The idea that anybody here would moderate HN for "political correctness" is Martian to me. Only someone who doesn't know us could imagine that.
There is no "HN crowd"; that's just a rhetorical construct people use to implicitly place themselves above others. Since you're commenting here, you're a part of HN as much as anyone else is.
People love to imagine that their uncivil and unsubstantive comments have value, and therefore that we must be against them for ideological reasons (e.g. political correctness). But that is self-flattery. It's really just that such comments lower the signal-noise ratio.
Flip all the ideological bits and none of this changes. For example, replace "right-wing" with "left-wing" upthread and that comment would be just as uncivil; replace "the PC crowd" in your own comments with whatever the opposite construct is and they would be just as unsubstantive.