> let's not feed green-account trolls with words of calculated malice

Let's "assume good faith" and "respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize" [1].

They may be a troll, or an idiot. Or they may be reflecting an increasingly-prevalent view that people should stick to their "own" territory, for various definitions of "own." (Whether this fuel anti-immigrant xenophobia, colonist/coloniser moral binaries, or the dismissal or a disease eradicator.)

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

I sincerely believe "obvious troll" was the strongest possible interpretation of that comment.

edit: For with it's worth, "don't feed trolls" is also an HN guideline ("Don't feed egregious comments by replying").