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> Xenophobic insults are not allowed on HN This sentence was neither xenophobic nor an insult. > If you do it again we will ban your account. Stop threatenin
by muuh-gnu 11y ago
> Xenophobic insults are not allowed on HN
This sentence was neither xenophobic nor an insult.
> If you do it again we will ban your account.
Stop threatening people for innocuous statements.
- dang 11y agoIt was xenophobic because it said something nasty (edit: and completely non-factual) about an entire country. HN has plenty of readers in Russia and they have the same right to civil discourse here that everyone else does.
- guard-of-terra 11y agoWhat if there are things you may consider nasty that might also be true? I've read pg's "what you can't say", I know you're supposed to entertain this idea to yourself and shut up about it so you don't get caught in wars you don't want to wage all your life. But this time I think it's important for readers to know that war is actually going on.
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- SamReidHughes 11y agoYour comment was off-topic and uninteresting. It doesn't matter whether it's true or not, or that it's some dude's (i.e. your) opinion. It's about as enlightening as a banana. Don't pretend this is about some minutia of phrasing, either.
- guard-of-terra 11y agoI fail to see how it is off-topic, since Stalin's heirs were the first (widely known) nomenclature children to skip Russia, but far from last. If we're not counting the White Emigration, of course, since it's obvious that Tzar's heirs and kin live in the West too. Some took the Eastern route, of course, via China, but end up in civilized world.
- SamReidHughes 11y agoI see you couldn't pass up an opportunity to make a drive-by insult to the Chinese, either.
- guard-of-terra 11y agoChina has history almost as tragic as Russia does. First their country was divided, then it was partially conquered by Japanese, then it was struck by civil war, lost some territories (Mongolia, Tyva), divided again (Taiwan), suffered under Mao and then lived in poverty and lack of human rights (one child policy) while building its economy. I doubt anyone will argue that this was the place to go at the time.
- SamReidHughes 11y agoYour justifications for your classification of what counts as civilization are irrelevant. You don't have to litigate the question in the first place. Nor did the question of what countries are worth living in need to be raised in order to discuss the fun little games of international diplomacy, or Russia in general.
- dang 11y agoNo, SamReidHughes is right: you insulted China by excluding it from what you called the "civilized world" and then backtracked by pretending you said something else. This is a pattern, and it's a poisonous one on this site. Please stop.
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- overflowall 11y agoDon't be that political correctness, dude.
- ps4fanboy 11y agoPlease dont say anything about the people who live in North Korea as well.
- garrettgrimsley 11y agoIf you go to the DPRK you'll find people, some who are quite curious about the world, just like you and I.