Grandiose politicized provocations are flamebait. There's no actual information there. Your comment does contain some, and I wouldn't have replied to it that way.

Sensationalized political fights are one of the worst poisons here, so when an account is showing signs of using HN for that, it's not good. Substantive discussion of divisive questions (which your comment is more touching into) is a quite different thing, and much more likely to be ok.