[kidcoach]

HN is one of the few places left for open political discourse with little partisanship or blundering hostility. Your comment/account suggests that you have no intention of continuing that trend. Down-votes represent a reaction to that, not your particular pov.

[hackinthebochs]

This hasn't been true of HN for years.

[notpc]

You have it backwards. I have this account because HN is not very open to political discourse unless you toe a very specific line. The Overton Window around here is very small.

[kidcoach]

I am talking about tone, not substance.

[notpc]

It's troubling that calling for witch hunts and firings over political opinions is okay, but a direct tone is a problem. Maybe our society would be better if that was flipped around.

[kidcoach]

Society already is that "flipped around" scenario, there are thousands of places on the web where you can yell and call people idiots/fascists/libtards/whatever. Have you ever seen it be productive ? Change people's minds on important issues ? No. To effect change you have to have respect and compassion for the person who's mind you are trying to change.

[notpc]

I didn't call anyone an idiot, a fascist, a libtard, or a 'whatever'. Good try at a straw man though.

[abiox]

it doesn't seem like they said you did.