[cbeach]

The post went from 1, 2, then 3 votes, down to 1, zero and then -1. Interesting.

I thought Hacker News might be the kind of forum where an argument backed with facts and sources (including peer reviewed papers) might be enough to break through tribal leftwing suppression of politically incorrect opinions. Evidently not.

[function_seven]

A lot of readers reflexively downvote comments that have lines such as:

> I know how alarmist this comment sounds, and I fully expect it to be downvoted because it contradicts the politically-correct utopian vision of immigration that we're all expected to hold.

(Emphasis mine)

From the HN Guidelines[1]:

> Please don't bait other users by inviting them to downvote you or declare that you'll probably get downvoted.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

[dools]

I downvoted because of the use of the word "lefties"