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Pressure by Chinese government, maybe?
by jonnycomputer 5y ago
Pressure by Chinese government, maybe?
- MeinBlutIstBlau 5y agoA lot of major tech/game companies have been kowtowing to Chinese policies.
- jonnycomputer 5y agoyou comment would be more acceptable without the use of "kowtowing".
- Uberphallus 5y agoStrange, I find it particularly accurate.
- jonnycomputer 5y agoThen use "prostrate", or "abject submission" when means the same thing, more or less. English already has words for this! It is not about accuracy, but about language that is stereotypically reserved for when talking about China, and to my ears, it comes off as a bit racist, tbh.
- MeinBlutIstBlau 5y ago磕頭 is the Chinese word "Kowtow" basically meaning "submission" or "prostrate." Yet For some reason, the fact that the Chinese employed this method of submission on others was okay, but when we use it on the context of China forcing it on Western countries, suddenly it's "racist." Whether I use the word the Chinese made or the use an English amalgamation of its meaning is irrelevant. There is absolutely nothing even remotely ethnocentric or bigoted in using the word. You are just an easily offended person.
- jonnycomputer 5y agoAre you writing in Chinese? No, you weren't. So the question is, what is the intent here? Would you have used the same word if, for example, the context was Brazil? or Russia? I think a little more self-reflection, rather than defensiveness is in order. Especially because the comment was intended to be helpful, and not a criticism. The original comment was getting downvoted, and I suggested what the reason might be.
- OhWellLol 5y agoThe intent is to reveal your linguistic hypochondria, which appears to be working very well.
- jonnycomputer 5y agoOr just that I'm a little more aware? https://www.google.com/search?q=news+kowtow+-definition+-meaning+-etymology+-kowtowclothing+-clothes+-encyclopedia+-clothing https://www.google.com/search?q=news+kowtow+-definition+-mea... That's a google search. I just filter out definitions, references, and the clothing brand. Now look at it. Sure there are examples of the word kowtow used for other things. But its mostly about China. Because in the context of China, the word just suggests itself. But why? What does it add? What does it subtract. No one here wants to wrestle with that. Instead they get defensive.
- OhWellLol 5y agoOh goodie, using linguistic references from Google to justify accusatory paranoia. Let's play that game! https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=Kowtow&geo=US https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=Kowtow&geo=US I-I-I-is North Dakota a bastion of Chinese context!? Your conspiracy theory is not only nakedly annoying, but pointless until you address this very serious North Dakota problem.
- MeinBlutIstBlau 5y agoI call the Russian special forces Spetznaz and the Brazilian yearly festival Car-ni-val. Or when I am happy when bad happens to other people, I have schadenfreude. Did you also know most of English is comprised of loan words from other languages too? Or are you offended too that words like etiquette are actually french? So yes. I would use a word that the said culture would say themselves.
- acrobatsunfish 5y ago"The point is obvious. There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches. Every minority, be it Baptist/Unitarian, Irish/Italian/Octogenarian/Zen Buddhist, Zionist/Seventh-day Adventist, Women’s Lib/Republican, Mattachine/Four Square Gospel feels it has the will, the right, the duty to douse the kerosene, light the fuse. Every dimwit editor who sees himself as the source of all dreary blanc-mange plain-porridge unleavened literature licks his guillotine and eyes the neck of any author who dares to speak above a whisper or write above a nursery rhyme." Ray Bradbury
- selimthegrim 5y agoI suppose if I say Xi Jinping should go to hoosegow I’m stepping in it too?
- mdoms 5y agoWhat?! "Kowtowing" has absolutely no racist connotation whatsoever! You're a lunatic.
- dang 5y agoPlease don't make things even worse with personal attacks and name-calling. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Edit: we've had to ask you this kind of thing many times before. If you keep it up we will have to ban you. Also, would you please stop posting unsubstantive comments generally? You've been doing it a lot, unfortunately, and it's not what this site is supposed to be for.
- MeinBlutIstBlau 5y agoKowtow is not an offensive term, has been used by the Chinese for millennia, and in this context, happens to be about the Chinese. Quit being offended just for the sake of it.
- jonnycomputer 5y agoTBH, it is you who seems to be offended. Not me.
- MeinBlutIstBlau 5y agoSays the person calling me a racist for not saying something racist...
- jonnycomputer 5y agoI didn't call you racist.
- MeinBlutIstBlau 5y ago> I didn't call you racist. But at the top of the thread: >and to my ears, it comes off as a bit racist If that's not calling me a racist then I don't know what is.
- jonnycomputer 5y agoDescribing something someone said "come[ing] off as racist" doesn't make the person who said it a racist. We all (and I mean that) say things that are racist, and we don't even realize it, but most of us don't endorse an explicitly racist ideology either. I doubt you do, and certainly never claimed you did.
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- crocodiletears 5y agoNo, this is just an extension of their policy on covid misinformation.
- Lammy 5y ago"Ey yo the government is lies, son / United States of Google; Verizon" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ezpohf6-SuA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ezpohf6-SuA