Personal attacks will get you banned here, regardless of how wrong someone else may be, so please don't post like this to Hacker News.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

(Incidentally, no one likes anyone who challenges their personal orthodoxy, and we all have one.)

Writing off folks opinions as "just an excuse" is rather insulting, impolite, and antagonistic.

That I had the audacity to directly call out that behavior instead of coaching attacks in vague language is the only difference here.

By your own, cited guidelines

> Please don't use Hacker News primarily for political or ideological battle. This destroys intellectual curiosity, so we ban accounts that do it.

This whole conversation is off-base. Consistency in the application of rule would be great. This seems like the exact kind of situation that calls for a detach / remove.

Systematic inequality is a subject of statistical science, not personal orthodoxy.

A simple example are the various studies that show that "white" resumes get more attention that minority resumes: https://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/minorities-who-whiten-job-resumes...

> Systematic inequality is a subject of statistical science, not personal orthodoxy.

The comment you replied to had nothing to do with whether or not inequality exists, only that articles that unnecessarily bring up race, gender, etc. are pandering to the identity-politics crowd.