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It's a shame you can't even look at some spectacular drone footage without having to wade through a swamp of baseless accusations and petty hate, just because t
by lizardactivist 4y ago
It's a shame you can't even look at some spectacular drone footage without having to wade through a swamp of baseless accusations and petty hate, just because the camera drone is made by a Chinese company.
- eldaisfish 4y agoI share this sentiment. it is flat out hate against groups of people at this point. Sure, there is credible evidence of the Chinese government doing horrible things and influencing corporate decisions but hating all Chinese products is just... stupid at this point. Exact same issue with the blind hate towards ordinary Russians.
- lizardactivist 4y agoAnd all the stupid hate against US Americans because of the horrific things their government continues to do to this very day, don't you agree?
- rocket_surgeron 4y agoYes, and? Americans know our country is shitty. One of the top stories on hacker news RIGHT NOW is about how the life expectancy is plummeting because we’re all fat and addicted to something while being trapped in a shitty health care system. Chinese get so goddamned butthurt and defensive it is like they are mentally ill battered wives defending their abuser.
- lizardactivist 4y agoCan you show some of these comments where Chinese people get butthurt because people shit-talk Chinese companies? Are those comments here on HN? I've been on the Internet many years and see a lot of people getting butthurt when they read about China excelling at things, and generally the Chinese themselves are next to non-existant, at least here on the Western side of the net.
- rocket_surgeron 4y agoBesides the the comment I replied to? Whataboutism is prima facie, irrefutable, unquestionable evidence of butthurtism. The phenomenon is so prevalent that the phrase 伤害中国人民的感情 causes newspaper editors and online commenters to roll their eyes because if you publish an article about how heavy rain has caused flooding in a province somewhere a dozen state-controlled media outlets and ten thousand weibo posters will drone on about 中国人民的感情. https://translate.google.com/?sl=auto&tl=en&text=伤害中国人民的感情&op=translate https://translate.google.com/?sl=auto&tl=en&text=伤害中国人民的感情&o... https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/sep/08/you-should-consider-our-feelings-for-chinese-students-the-state-is-an-extension-of-family https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/sep/08/you-sh...
- lizardactivist 4y ago"Whataboutism" is not the ace-in-the-sleeve you think it is. It's tucking the tail between the legs and stubbornly refuse to acknowledge defeat, because once the blatant hypocrisy has been pointed out there's nothing sensible to respond with. But I see what level you're taking this to: anyone who disagrees with the agenda is a Chinese or Russian spy.
- icoder 4y agoYou can look at that footage without even tiptoeing the swamp. To read the comments might be a different story, although by the time I got here it was quite ease to stay on dry land, which may have been different for you. Then again, it's not about China, it's about a country with a regime that gives zero transparency and seemingly gives little about privacy regulation, and which has brought forth at least one big electronics company that's being blocked from big parts of western markets for fear of information (in)security. Now, all that might be up for debate by itself, but you can hardly blame people extrapolate from that.
- lizardactivist 4y agoYour second paragraph describes the US more accurately than China, I think.