My experiences as a Recruiter on Hacker News 
I don't want an apology on behalf of the very angry minority, not even close.You may not want one, but you deserve one.It's sad to see that even without the visibility of the mob amplifying itself in public, you still get a private lynching of sorts... Perhaps the same people who sent those emails can come out of the woodwork now and apologise. That'd be big of them.