Some people are really against people trying to empathize with an incredibly bad situation after having gone through a slightly-bad situation that has some parallels. They insist that it's nothing like that and will scream down anyone who tries to care based on their own experience.

IMO, it's incredibly harmful for the the cause and instead of shouting them down, they should just turn away and ignore them.

OTOH, if they were trying to use that experience to downplay the problem, it's perfectly fine to talk to them about why they're wrong, but civilly.

Spending two weeks in a hotel room with all the amenities you can imagine (Contact to your beloved ones, television, internet access) is in no way comparable to solitary confinement, especially given the short time and the fact that you know when it will end. The gp comment is incredibly tone deaf.

This happens so often on here, these extreme downvotings of otherwise normal comments, that I'm convinced this is the product of bots or some other manipulation. I don't think the karma means anything on this board.