I'm not arguing about Gandhi facts. Your comment was flamebait. By unsubstantive I mean comments that add more noise than signal to a thread.
It's also against HN's rules to use it primarily for political or ideological battle. Would you mind taking the spirit of this site more to heart, as described at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html? We're here for curious conversation, not to smite enemies, and those two things can't coexist. For example, if you jump from a topic like "Disproved discoveries that won Nobel Prizes" to "Gandhi was a horrific racist", you're taking the thread in the sort of hellish direction from which the internet never returns.
It's also against HN's rules to use it primarily for political or ideological battle. Would you mind taking the spirit of this site more to heart, as described at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html? We're here for curious conversation, not to smite enemies, and those two things can't coexist. For example, if you jump from a topic like "Disproved discoveries that won Nobel Prizes" to "Gandhi was a horrific racist", you're taking the thread in the sort of hellish direction from which the internet never returns.
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