> hundreds of people upvoting it

At the time of this comment, there are 101 up-votes on the article. Making no other judgement of your critique, engaging in exaggeration like this weakens it, especially given the volatility of the topic.

My bad. I saw it on the front page and made an off the cuff remark.

I upvoted because I wanted to know the real story.

There some incredibly interesting comments about human history here now.