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Can I have a strong dislike of how America conducts its business or is that not allowed? If anything all my comments are ANTI-nationalistic, where the national
by camillomiller 4y ago
Can I have a strong dislike of how America conducts its business or is that not allowed?
If anything all my comments are ANTI-nationalistic, where the nationalism is that sneaking in so many comments here that subscribe to an entitled, west-centric view of the world.
The fact that an always civil -albeit confrontational- discussion is seen as inflaming is quite worrying.
Edit: the entire thread this was an answer to was dismissive and partisan about Europe.
- dang 4y agoOf course you can - plenty of HN commenters make such critiques. But you need to do it without swipes, snark, name-calling, or flamebait, as the site guidelines ask: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. Every sentence in your GP comment was flamebait—exactly the kind of thing we're trying to avoid here. And yes, if you start a flamewar comment a la "It's so damn $country", that's nationalistic flamewar in the sense that we use the term, regardless of which nation you have a problem with. This kind of thing ends up producing internet discussion that is equal parts inflamed, predictable, and dumb. We want curious conversation here.
- camillomiller 4y agook, fair. will keep it in mind.