I don't find it appropriate to make these kinds of assumptions about the author. It's okay to disagree, but it would help the conversation if you elaborated why you didn't enjoy the article
I didn't read the title of the article in that way, and I believe it to be a bad-faith reading.
I understood the title to mean "the people in FOSS whom we treat with the same morbid curiosity and provokation as the mentally ill people and other deviants who used to be displayed in circuses for other people's entertainment".
It's also clear to me from the text of the article that Drew does not hold contempt for neither of the two individuals he talks about, and the postscript demonstrates that he approaches this difficult topic with due diligence and respect for the people
It's unreasonable to post an article like that then ask us to speak politely about him.