Personal attacks are not ok here, regardless of how wrong another comment is. Would you mind reviewing the site guidelines?

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

Sorry I didn't realize telling people not to hate others was against the rules. I do wonder why saying not to hate gets that but a comment about sending people to GULAGs doesn't.

I scolded that commenter upthread.

Those were crap comments, rightly downvoted and flagged, but another comment being crap doesn't entitle you to break the site guidelines.

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

Sorry about that. I have deleted the comment or will as soon as I click submit on this message.

Evidently I can't do that or at least I don't see a delete link on this message. It won't happen again.

Or you go to GULAG

If you're playing devil's advocate, you should be more explicit. Otherwise it sounds like the hill you're dying on is one that represents the desire to openly express hatred of large groups of people based on broad categories.