On: Black barbers have become mental health advocates ...

[dang]

That's to be expected from any large, open, anonymous internet forum and is why the site guidelines say this:

"Don't feed egregious comments by replying; flag them instead."

a.k.a. please don't feed the trolls. If people didn't feed it, it wouldn't grow. Therefore the problem is entirely a co-creation.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

[Spivak → dang]

I always feel weird about flagging comments.

[dang → Spivak]

Ok, but please don't fuel flamewars as an alternative.