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> As a chinese, this kind of comment makes me hate the west even more. I have no control over my government. That right there is exactly the response your gove
by mb_72 7y ago
> As a chinese, this kind of comment makes me hate the west even more. I have no control over my government.
That right there is exactly the response your government would want you to have. You already 'hate the west', and now even more because of what I wrote? That seems unreasonable to me, and there was not one racist mention in my comment either.
If 'my' government (in Australia) were pulling these kind of stunts in 'my' name, damn right I would be doing something about it. In fact, I already do something about my community's shabby treatment of the First Australians (financially and lobbying wise).
I feel we, the people, have a responsibility to ourselves and other humans, irrespective of country of origin, culture or background, to resist and oppose transgressions by the governments who represent us.
- zajd 7y agoSo we shouldn't hire Australians until they actually fix the situation with their indigenous peoples? Why are you assuming that the average Chinese engineer doesn't resist and oppose transgressions by the government? "The west" is not a race, it's not racism to hate the west, it's just the result of the blatant hypocrisy these sorts of statements display. Imagine if Americans started to refuse to hire Australians because of their recent crackdown on press privacy?
- dang 7y agoPlease don't take HN threads further into political and nationalistic flamewar. This sort of rhetoric never leads anywhere interesting. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html