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I think you’re missing the point here. It’s a flame war if and only if there are two perspectives and it comes down to a matter of choice (e.g Vim vs EMacs). Th
by aicaffeinelife 4y ago
I think you’re missing the point here. It’s a flame war if and only if there are two perspectives and it comes down to a matter of choice (e.g Vim vs EMacs). The majority of the commenters here are pointing out to the fact that some Western academics either deliberately or ignorantly mistranslate Sanskrit and to a person who has no background in this stuff often form an incorrect or incomplete picture which then leads to a positive/negative bias in their minds.
- dang 4y agoIt's a flamewar comment when a commenter uses denunciatory tropes and ready-to-go polemical links on a classic flamewar topic. When an account has a history of prosecuting nationalistic and religious flamewar, that goes double. Sometimes the account is even one in a sequence of accounts that we've had to ban for this in the past. I'm not asking anyone to submit to colonial dogmas here—just to abide by the site guidelines when making their substantive points. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- aicaffeinelife 4y agoThat sounds fair. I also agree about keeping HN for hackers and not politics.