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I'm pretty uninformed on this topic. Can some explain why the parent comment would get downvoted?

quantstats 6y ago
Because within minutes of being published this post is filled with people apparently okay with defending the Uighur genocide that the CCP is carrying out in Xinjiang. Really sad to see such blatant attempts here, I thought this community was better than that. Just to be clear: there is absolutely no doubt whatsoever that these violations of human rights are being committed, anyone you see denying that is either ignorant or wilfully lying.
- snurfer 6y ago
  That seems like a straw man argument.
- transtrain 6y ago
  The left can't acknowledge that their ideology of socialism and communism they are desperate to implement in the western world, has a history of genocide. Awkward.
hungryhobo 6y ago
Well perhaps that's not really Beijing's narrative? But an attempt at creating a you are either with us it against us narrative? Same thing was used when us went to war with Iraq but look where we are.
dang 6y ago
Nationalistic and ideological flamewar are not what this site is for, and people are routinely descending into near-madness about this. The comments are predictable, over the top, and unbelievably lame. Users who want to yell at each other and blare national/ideological rhetoric need to post elsewhere. Boilerplate talking points belong elsewhere also. This is becoming epidemic on HN. I think we are going to have to ask the community to get a lot more systematic about flagging comments that flout this site's rules and intended spirit—regardless of which side of the battle they're on. This is the point at which some angry zealot accuses us of being secret communist agents. Not at all—we're just trying to have an internet forum that isn't dominated by cartoonish ideological and nationalistic yelling. Grandiose rhetoric is not intellectually interesting, so this follows from what we're trying to optimize for: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sort=byDate&type=comment&query=curiosity%20optimiz%20by:dang https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor....

Because within minutes of being published this post is filled with people apparently okay with defending the Uighur genocide that the CCP is carrying out in Xinjiang. Really sad to see such blatant attempts here, I thought this community was better than that. Just to be clear: there is absolutely no doubt whatsoever that these violations of human rights are being committed, anyone you see denying that is either ignorant or wilfully lying.

snurfer 6y ago
That seems like a straw man argument.
transtrain 6y ago
The left can't acknowledge that their ideology of socialism and communism they are desperate to implement in the western world, has a history of genocide. Awkward.

hungryhobo 6y ago

Well perhaps that's not really Beijing's narrative? But an attempt at creating a you are either with us it against us narrative? Same thing was used when us went to war with Iraq but look where we are.

dang 6y ago

Nationalistic and ideological flamewar are not what this site is for, and people are routinely descending into near-madness about this. The comments are predictable, over the top, and unbelievably lame. Users who want to yell at each other and blare national/ideological rhetoric need to post elsewhere. Boilerplate talking points belong elsewhere also. This is becoming epidemic on HN. I think we are going to have to ask the community to get a lot more systematic about flagging comments that flout this site's rules and intended spirit—regardless of which side of the battle they're on. This is the point at which some angry zealot accuses us of being secret communist agents. Not at all—we're just trying to have an internet forum that isn't dominated by cartoonish ideological and nationalistic yelling. Grandiose rhetoric is not intellectually interesting, so this follows from what we're trying to optimize for: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sort=byDate&type=comment&query=curiosity%20optimiz%20by:dang https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor....