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I honestly can't tell if this is sarcastic or not. Especially points 4 and 5 - this is when you learn to get out of comfort zone!
by elchin 6y ago
I honestly can't tell if this is sarcastic or not. Especially points 4 and 5 - this is when you learn to get out of comfort zone!
- kevin_thibedeau 6y agoCould just be a resume building puff piece to help him rise in the party machinery.
- aj7 6y agoDidn’t think of that. Well said.
- free_rms 6y agoWritten in 2008, though. Hu Jintao was in charge, China was hosting the Olympics, the posture was generally more open to the West. Seems a lot more like a cranky guy than political-favor-currying.
- wonnage 6y agoThis is an exasperating bit of casual racism I see all the time. A Chinese person has said something you disagree with, they must have no personal agency, they must be trying to curry favor with the government! the CPC is not Santa Claus, ffs
- buzzkillington 6y agoAre you suggesting that the CPC is ingrained in the DNA of all Chinese? I fail to see how criticizing a political system is racist otherwise.
- dang 6y agoThat's obviously not what the parent comment was saying. Would you please stop taking HN threads further into nationalistic, ideological, or political, or any, flamewar? We ban accounts that do this, you've done it repeatedly, and we've asked you already to stop. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- buzzkillington 6y agoKind of funny you're not banning any of the spam CPC accounts here promoting nationalistic, ideological, and political flames the second you point out the CPC is the only country in the world running actual concentration camps for minorities.
- dang 6y agoPeople accuse us of secretly siding with their enemies when they get moderated. That's cheap and frankly rather silly. The opposite side makes the opposite accusations. Re "spam CPC accounts", concoctions like that are also a cheap-and-rather-silly thing that internet users come up with when they don't like what other internet users say. It's common, poisonous, and inevitably so vacuous that we have a site rule against it- see https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. If you had evidence of abuse, you should be emailing it to hn@ycombinator.com so we can look at the actual data. Comments expressing views that go against your own views is not evidence of abuse, it's merely evidence that divisive topics are divisive, which we all know already.
- Dahoon 6y agoChinese person saying something you don't believe yourself? Must be a brainwashed party drone! Sigh, the racism is running wild on HN too. It really is becoming the new Reddit.
- kevin_thibedeau 6y agoYou seem to have glossed over all the self-satisfied puffery about lazy Westerners. Throw in a quote from the Classics, doubleplusgood. What do you think is the career trajectory for a lawyer in China?
- dang 6y agoPlease do not use HN for nationalistic or ideological flamewar. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- president 6y agoSince when is making a plausible quip "racism"? It is common knowledge that public statements made by Chinese citizens are scrutinized by the government and are effectively "filtered". People like you have completely diluted the meaning of the word.
- wonnage 6y agoYou are asserting that no public statement by a Chinese person can be trusted, how is that not racist
- dang 6y ago"Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- dang 6y agoWe've asked you multiple times to stop doing nationalistic flamewar on HN. This comment crosses into personal attack as well. Moreover, it looks like you've been using HN primarily for ideological or political battle. We ban accounts that do these things. Please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and fix this.