When you see [flagged] on a story it means users flagged it, so that part is no mystery.
Sometimes it's a mystery why they flagged it, but I'm not sure it's hard to understand in this case. The topic is inflammatory, the comments are poor (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23867523), and there's not much information to discuss.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23866310