I didn't downvote it, but I would have if I hadn't been participating in the discussion, on grounds of being obviously unrepresentative outrage-bait. If I wanted to see that, I've got a Tumblr account.
That said, I wouldn't consider a post at -2 [edit: at the time of this post] particularly heavily downvoted.
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