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The site guidelines specifically ask you not to post like this because (a) internet users are notoriously prone to such perceptions, (b) such perceptions are notoriously unreliable, and (c) it invariably leads to low-quality, repetitive discussion and eventually nasty flamewar. Nasty nationalistic/ethnic flamewar is particularly unwelcome here.

If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.

If anyone cares, one reason why such perceptions are notoriously unreliable is that people generalize based on what they notice, and what they notice is conditioned by what they agree/disagree with, like/dislike, and so on: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

The truth is that HN is divided on divisive topics the same way that society at large is divided (or rather, societies at large, because this is also a highly international site, although mostly Western). You can't take the appearance of opposing views as signalling anything other than that a topic is divisive. As for perceptions of "HN is more X" or "HN is less X" - in my experience over many years, they're mostly random.