Visceral violent hate of 'heretics' and 'pagans' has less to do with Western civilization and more to do with human nature's propension to identify with a tribe and consider everyone outside the tribe as a threat until proven otherwise.

That propension didn't appear randomly either, it is the result of millenias of hard lessons learned where those outside tribes were indeed threats.

That learned behavior still dictates our actions today, except for some of us, the notion of "tribe" has been enlarged to include a vast number of people, or, for the most idealistic, the entire planet.

> except for some of us, the notion of "tribe" has been enlarged to include a vast number of people By "some of us", do you mean people of European heritage? China, Russia, Israel, and most of Africa are incredibly xenophobic.

> Throwaway accounts are ok for sensitive information, but please don't create accounts routinely. HN is a community—users should have an identity that others can relate to.

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

Using a throwaway account to make a needlessly incendiary comment is unproductive. If you're not willing to put your main identity behind a comment, maybe consider if it needs to be rephrased rather than hiding behind a throwaway.