By deleting your comment you're depriving people of the chance to evaluate whether the downvotes really are an echo chamber or a reasonable reaction to reprehen

By deleting your comment you're depriving people of the chance to evaluate whether the downvotes really are an echo chamber or a reasonable reaction to reprehensible statements. If you're confident that what you wrote was reasonable, and HN's reaction unreasonable, it'd be a lot better to leave the comment up.