HN lore: a news submission that gets flagged is removed from the listing of posts on HN and basically hidden.
It's interesting because there are a bunch of comments basically agreeing with the statements re Palestine and against a genocide, and of course that means it gets flagged.
Given Irish history, and this person's Irish origin, I can understand how, in an unguarded and possibly reflexive moment, he could see this as merely support for a smaller, inferior, insurgent force against a larger, militarily superior occupying force, as this can be argued to loosely parallel Irish 20C history involving Britain.
At the same time, I'm surprised because this person organized a cosmopolitan gathering, and it seems likely that he would have adopted a more cosmopolitan and sensitive attitude.
I suppose the old adage is true, "The tree may leave the forest, but its roots are still in the soil."
I like to see them wrestle with wanting to be contrarian, "independent thinkers", and defenders of while also parroting US state department talking points about every world conflict
HN also has a huge transphobia issue that wasn't dealt with at all by the mods. It got so bad that the Asahi Linux project had to block the referral link from Hacker News to their website. It's probably the techbro site besides X formerly known as Twitter.
This new crop of lib mfs will pretend anything's a compliment even when it looks bad. Annoying deflection they do, but ultimately shows they've run out of things to say