Let's be honest here, all the apps are pretty much written for the Western world. The amount of revenue software products make from the non-western world is less than 5% of the total revenue.
Keep telling yourself that, HN is an echo chamber. Diversity of opinion is shunned. Anything that does not fit the SJW narrative will be down voted to death like this very comment.
He deserved it for using a random incident to blame the candidate he doesn't like. He is the kind of the guy who would say "Anyone who disagrees with me is only doing it to piss me off! Differences of opinion are proof of evil!"
just image the butthurt if it was exactly other way, 200 threads in HN