There's no way a comment like this can have good effects on HN. People sometimes think it's ok to post them if they come from that background themselves (not sure if this is true in your case, of course) but it still won't have a good effect. The combination of sweeping generalization with denunciatory language is bound to lead to a flamewar no matter how the chips fall.

Things that mitigate this effect are: rolling back the grand generalities, stating things neutrally, and (if relevant) talking about your personal experience and observations. I'm not sure those things would be enough to take a comment like this out of net-negative territory but they'd at least shorten its blast radius.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11592793 and marked it off-topic.

Many Americans project the image of dispassionate competence at work, as always being in control of everything is perceived to be a major virtue in white men's culture.

But they are often assholes to their co-workers and families, yet friendly with their drug-dealers, and typically have a major "i am losing my shit complex".

So it's all a game of roulette (russian).

Feel bad for you being downvoted, your observations seem to the point. But they don't answer the parent's question.