The irony here. You write a comment to put things in perspective with respect to herd mentality (yes it was not a lynching, but it was an over-the-top reaction

The irony here. You write a comment to put things in perspective with respect to herd mentality (yes it was not a lynching, but it was an over-the-top reaction), and the mere act of putting things into perspective gets downvoted exactly because of this herd mentality.