I engaged primarily in arguments of fact. I did my best to cite sources and outline rational arguments. I was immediately condescended to, insulted, and slandered as racist and a liar. I admit I got testy in response, but you can see that I didn't fire first and was repeatedly provoked. None of the others users involved appear to have been silenced or banned.
This isn't just some academic comments section argument, it affects real policy and real people and real lives. Where on the whole Internet is open and honest discussion of this subject, who commits crime in America and why, permitted? Not Facebook, Reddit, very soon likely not Twitter. I had hoped HN of all places would be one such forum. I see now I was wrong. Your biased moderation is noted and a great disappointed.
I responded to the other user I saw who was breaking the site guidelines in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35957674. If there were others, I didn't see them—I didn't read the entire thread. It's impossible to read everything.
I didn't ban the other account because when I looked at their comment history I saw a track record of mostly using HN as intended.
Could you please stop feeding flamewars and/or using HN for ideological battle? Regardless of what you're battling for or against, it's not what this site is for and destroys what it is for.
