[citation needed]

lol - were you still in wikipedia editor mode when you wrote that?

Or do you really feel that my comment needed a citation here on HN (Hacker News)? And if it’s the latter, I’m genuinely curious what the proper HN etiquette would be.

My comment wasn’t attempting to be particularly scholarly or to be included in a referencable work.

Quite honestly, I wouldn’t know which reference to pull? Wikipedia? A highly Google ranked Psychology Today magazine article (q= difference+between+tribalism+vs+social+behaviour) ? The entire Google search result link?

At least 2 of the above options might have been interpreted as condescending, and the other one an almost random pick, the randomness of it becoming a potential point of critique.

So I’m genuinely curious how I might have done better.

It was half joking. On the serious side, I am always skeptical of claims about human nature.

and here I thought that using “arguably” in my post would communicate that not everyone might agree. - Oh well ...