[hn_throwaway_99]

I asked this exact question in an Ask HN post a couple of years ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29532676

That thread actually changed my mind on the issue. You say "We should be able as a community to discuss conterversial subjects somehow." Well, guess what, we're not, or at least we're not without a great amount of care. Stories like the submitted one, which may be factually accurate but clearly have a political axe to grind are absolutely not going to lead to anything but a shitstorm of useless discussion.