Why should he should say something he doesn't believe? We don't have to agree with him.

> I think it’s more important that we stop collectively pretending that we don’t understand how awful all of this is

Would be very different from say:

> I'd like to understand people who don't see it the same way as me, that it's mostly awful and not good.

Or similar, rather than "I'm right, everyone else don't understand it properly". Very HN-esque, but oh so tiring after 100s of articles in the exactly same vein from the same author.