Worth noting that the commenter you're replying to is only LARPing as a centrist. The comment history of his other (now-banned) accounts are directly at odds with some of the "truths" he claims to have realized.
If this were the HN of ten years ago, I might have expressed similar sentiments.
Between the comments in this thread though, and the complete lack of moderator attention, I can only come to the conclusion that xenophobia is perfectly fine on HN - provided you couch it in the appropriate rhetoric and don't use any mean words.
I've suspected that Rayiner's posts were held to a different standard of moderation than others for _quite_ some time. Thank you for explicitly confirming this.
> The conservatives have made it clear that they support the rule, but it needs to be done right.
They have _said_ that they support the rule. In recent years, conservative judges have said a number of things that don't hold up to any amount of scrutiny.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46747587
Has anything changed your mind since then?