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let's try to replace one word: "Facebook confirms data sharing with Jewish companies". You see what kind of ideology this is spreading? Being Chinese is bad?
by nraynaud 8y ago
let's try to replace one word: "Facebook confirms data sharing with Jewish companies". You see what kind of ideology this is spreading? Being Chinese is bad?
- deft 8y agoanti-chinese sentiment is very common on hackernews. Goes into pure racism a lot of the time.
- fhood 8y agoHang on though. Lets not conflate China the country, with Chinese the inhabitants. I can be highly suspicious of China and Russia the countries without feeling any animosity towards the people who are from there.
- swebs 8y agoI'm sure it has nothing to do with the Chinese government's authoritarian censorship policies or great firewall.
- throwaway59928 8y agoI’d call it anti-China sentiment, which isn’t racism at all. There’s plenty to dislike about the Chinese government and Chinese nationalism.
- beart 8y agoA closer analogy is "Facebook confirms data sharing with Israeli companies", which seems slightly less inflammatory.
- cheeze 8y agoI still think people would be unhappy about this, but Isreali Companies aren't as big of threats to national security, or at least that is what I've been led to beliee.
- RaleyField 8y agoIn contexts like this Chinese is often short for Chinese communist. But if that was elaborated then you would accuse people of McCarthyism and being overly hysterical about communism.
- 7Z7 8y agoDo you mean "often short for China the country"? Because otherwise it does sound pretty weird for you to say "Chinese communist".
- RaleyField 8y ago> Do you mean "often short for China the country"? No. You will see people aren't bothered by Taiwan or other far eastern countries, perhaps there's a reason. > pretty weird Maybe English is a weird language. I'm esl so I shouldn't be teaching you.. The reason people don't spell it out is because it is shorter, seems more polite and are afraid of looking like this[0]. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MoATWN68IZA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MoATWN68IZA
- reaperducer 8y agoA number of Chinese companies, including some that Facebook shared data with, are listed as threats to U.S. national security. When a Jewish company makes the list, get back to us. For now, you're just diverting attention from the issue.
- Dig1t 8y agoThis is literally the dumbest statement I've ever read on this website