If you are being oppressed based on ethnicity, it is fine to band together based on ethnicity to secure your rights.

Downvoted... Can someone point me to the HN guideline that forbids requesting an OP to clarify what they are saying?

  - is ok legally 
  - is ok morally 
  - is ok politically 
  - is ok strategically 
  - is ok accord me 
  - is ok according to most people 
  - is ok according to the opposition

Tribal and group identity is welcomed and defended if those in that group are at risk.

Welcomed by who?

  - welcomed by me 
  - welcomed by everyone else in that group 
  - welcomed by everyone outside of that group 
  - welcomed by some people outside of that group

What are you even saying? Is this a personal manifesto? Is this alluding to some sociological principal, political philosophy, statistic poll?

For a forum geared towards engineers, the quality of thinking here on HN is depressingly low.

IMO, your original comment is too brief, reading as antagonistic. You weren't just politely asking for clarification along with an expression of your understanding.

And anyway, they're just internet points, who cares. I throw my account away when I get to 100, keeps me from getting worked up about it.