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>Upd: HN, the place where you get downvotes by agreeing to answer some questions. That's why I stopped coming. I think you might have meant "Russian national"
by dsfyu404ed 8y ago
>Upd: HN, the place where you get downvotes by agreeing to answer some questions. That's why I stopped coming.
I think you might have meant "Russian national" instead of "Russian nationalist". Calling ones self a nationalist around here is highly unpopular because that term is loaded with negative connotations for left leaning upper middle class Americans that mostly make up HN. You say "nationalist" and people think of someone that stands for everything that's the opposite of they do and then they down-vote.
- wolfgke 8y agoTo me, as a German, doombolt calling himself a Russian nationalist is no signal for downvoting, but rather a signal that the answers that he will give could be from a pro-Russian perspective - so only ask if you are sufficiently open-minded to hear answers that might change your mind or are outside your echo chamber.
- sdwa 8y ago> left leaning upper middle class Americans No, if there's a negative reaction to nationalism, there's more to it than that. Nationalism gave us two world wars, a number of civil wars and a few genocides in the 20th century. Nationalism is repugnant to many who are right wing and/or not upper middle class.