I do not think that BIP101 threatens network security, and the treat of a political civil war should not sufficient reason to not support a contentious fork.
It is not wrong to support a contentious hard fork.
i said that a contentious hard fork threatens to break consensus and could result in multiple blockchains. that is why a contentious hard fork should be avoided.
I do not think that this is a good reason to avoid contentious hard forks.
Considering that the problem of tyranny of the majority has been solved in Bitcoin, 75% consensus does seem reasonable to me in order to initiate a contentious hard fork.
I will stand by those statements, made in a different time. Things are different now, I support classic and unlimited for a two megabyte blocksize.