The first post in this topic led to a bit of a derail of the entire discussion, and the poster asked for their post to be removed. I removed the responses as well as they’d no longer have any context from which to draw.
Just in case anyone is wondering where all the posts went. 
That was not cool. There was a lot of great, intelligent, and impassioned discourse done in good faith that memory-holed unnecessarily (IMO).
ETA
I try not to invest in any subthreads that are likely to get nuked anyway but in this case I didn’t notice anything obvious that would have indicated a mass purging of posts. I spent quite a bit of time writing one of my now-nuked replies and I wouldn’t have even bothered (or I would have taken it to another thread) had I known this would happen.
Why not just use the fork feature?
Some may argue that comments like Waters’ only energise Il Douche’s base, who revel in a sense of victimhood and who are prone to false equivalencies. I happen to agree, what with his base being … oh, just take it, Gene:
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