I'm making a guess that you're as familiar with internet flamewars on these predictable, generic, and inflammatory topics as the rest of us are. If so, then your innocent-seeming question was concern trolling. If not, I'm sorry for the mistaken assumption. Moderation is guesswork.
That sounds like an extreme false dichotomy to me. The only two possible options are that I’m either being disingenuous and coy about trope flame war topics or else I’m too disconnected to know that my comment can only be perceived that way?
No, sorry. I understand moderation is not easy and I appreciate the work you do to facilitate this site, but that’s just not going to cut it.
Posting a philosophical question about the foundational assumptions that go into a topic like workplace culture norms is absolutely sincere and on-topic here.
As I said, it's guesswork, but my guess is that you're far too experienced an internet commenter not to know what concern trolling is. When I see someone seemingly-innocently try to relitigate workplace diversity in a thread about an article by Ellen Pao, of all authors, I ask myself what the odds are that they don't know what effect that is likely to have.
