What worries me more yareal is that the real thrust of my comments are celebrating human resilience and capacity to survive and prosper.

I can understand that some readers just see the words "concentration camp" and have a knee-jerk "eeeew!" reaction and downvote. They are frightened of certain topics without further thought. That's kinda forgivable.

But it's sinister that compassionate comments elicit a frenzy of flagging and downvoting. That seems worse than any simple "far right" sentiment. I'm starting to suspect there's a small but strong anti-humanist element around HN.

Edit: I'm quite sure there are vehement anti-humanists around here. The self-loathing is cloying.

I think some of your initial posts might have read as tone deaf. A sentiment similar to "look at the beauty in this tragedy" can feel like downplaying the tragedy, or it can feel like downplaying similar, other tragedies. ("This concentration camp made their space beautiful" can carry the implication that others don't, unintentionally suggesting that somehow the people in this one are better than the people in that one.)

You later clarified, but I suspect there's also a group of folks who don't want to hear that the US had concentration camps.

You're right. And I was really pleased that geephroh introduced me to the "model minority myth". It's an area of psychology I've not encountered before. Cheers

> uncontroversial takes

That's not sufficient for a good HN post, especially when the effect is to perpetuate a flamewar. The HN guidelines contain a point about this:

"Don't feed egregious comments by replying; flag them instead."

(which is our euphemism for please don't feed the trolls)

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html