We detached this subthread from <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=11655027" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=11655027</a> and marked it off-topic. Your comment wasn&#x27;t off-topic per se but it threw the thread that way.<p>The personal attacks were bad but you already know that. The racial comments are a problem because whether you mean them that way or not, people are certain to read them as slurs. It&#x27;s hard to conceive of a comment like yours not throwing an HN thread off the rails.