If you see such comments you should bring them to our attention by flagging them or, in egregious cases, emailing us at hn@ycombinator.com about them. This is something we moderate heavily:
Skew is inevitable on certain issues given that HN demographics are (though highly international) mostly Western. But that doesn't mean that people get to post slurs or use the site for nationalistic flamewar.
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
I've written extensively about it:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21195898
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19404162
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21200971
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21195089
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20741930
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20720787
Skew is inevitable on certain issues given that HN demographics are (though highly international) mostly Western. But that doesn't mean that people get to post slurs or use the site for nationalistic flamewar.