A certain amount of politics is inevitable, but more than that turns HN into a war zone, which destroys the things the site exists for: intellectual curiosity and thoughtful conversation. So it's a tricky problem. We do two things to address it (see https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html):
1. Accounts that use HN primarily for political/ideological battle are obviously not using the site as intended, so we ban them.
2. Commenters are asked to avoid the inflammatory style of political argument. Comments need to get more civil and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.
Unfortunately it looks like you've been running afoul of both of these. You need to fix that if you want to keep commenting here.
The "what about that other comment" argument, a.k.a. "the other person started it", a.k.a. "they did worse", doesn't really count as a defense because we can't possibly see everything that gets posted here. Not every driver who is speeding gets pulled over for a ticket. I agree with you that that comment was a bad one, but it doesn't mean yours were ok.
1. Accounts that use HN primarily for political/ideological battle are obviously not using the site as intended, so we ban them.
2. Commenters are asked to avoid the inflammatory style of political argument. Comments need to get more civil and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.
Unfortunately it looks like you've been running afoul of both of these. You need to fix that if you want to keep commenting here.
The "what about that other comment" argument, a.k.a. "the other person started it", a.k.a. "they did worse", doesn't really count as a defense because we can't possibly see everything that gets posted here. Not every driver who is speeding gets pulled over for a ticket. I agree with you that that comment was a bad one, but it doesn't mean yours were ok.