It always feels like the mods are against you. This is the Hostile Media Effect:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hostile_media_effect

https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme....

It's not equivalent. At HN (and in the U.S. and Europe), white males and christians are strong and secure; the threat they face from discrimination is very little. They aren't going to be lynched, enslaved, deported; they won't be denied education or other public services, or be denied jobs or power (the few jobs and little power they don't already have).

Consider a room with 40 people who can't leave. 36 are blue-eyed people and 4 are green-eyed. There is a long history of many blue-eyed people enslaving, oppressing, lynching, discriminating against, and hating green-eyed people. If a green-eyed person says, 'blue-eyed people are scum and we should kill them all', they might get some looks and some people might take a few steps away, but there isn't much threat. If a blue-eyed person says it about green-eyed people ...

Or they could just say, 'don't hire green people'. Again, it's much different if the powerful or the disempowered say the same thing. Another example is if you are a woman working in SV in an entry-level job. If you say, 'we shouldn't hire men', it's just odd. If the CEO says 'we shouldn't hire women', it's a serious threat to your job.