If we only posted articles lacking in controversy that would be uninteresting.

Nope. There are plenty of challenging problems that are not controversial, and disagreements can be dealt with amicably. You can have friendly opponents/competitors.

You could for example, avoid the article and go comment on the ones you find more interesting.

This is a serious issue and these articles are important. If anything they put pressure on more companies.

Apparently supporting basic human rights is too political now

Yes, the right to life is apparently quite controversial.

as is the right to consent.

i never agreed to be brought into this world, i’ll have you know.

man holding a butterfly: is this <flaming>?

Aren't you free to not read the comments?

Eh I guess that's kinda what they did.

No, it's not what they did, quite the opposite. Their account is almost two years old, yet that was their first post ever.

What they should have done was to continue to not post telling other people what they should not discuss.

They were doing just fine for almost two years not commenting on discussions they were not interested in or telling people what not to talk about, and they should have continued that trend instead of spoiling it.

It's always the ones who have reprehensible unjustifiable politics they don't want to discuss, who can't tolerate other people discussing politics.