It is one of the main methods of cancel culture, by portraying any disagreement as based in identity differences there can be no functional discussion of the facts at hand
That was surprisingly difficult. Frankly, it's a little strange to see such an illucid response being seemingly well received by HN.
> Perhaps your difficulties with comprehension regarding the comment are more orthogonal
'My difficulties with comprehension' constitute one metric. Orthogonality, in any way that I understand it, is a property of multiple such metrics.