Just saved me big time! Just changed it to be correct... I often drop the negative when typing / writing. Makes no sense to me... I think the negative but just don't write or type it. Have thought about asking a smart psychologist or neurologist about that... I'm afraid they will just say that it is my own incompetence and nothing else :/
I don't think anyone is under the spell of freedom and the American way anymore. The US being shitty does not mean that other countries can't be criticized.
When an image gives the wrong first impression/is misleading, indeed they are.
When doing with good intent, they're not. Since the US and China are rivals at this point and neither side wants to chill, and given the history of troll farms by many countries to manipulate discourse, I'd be wary of discussion that contributes to a solution.
Human rights is a form of secular religion. They do not exist in the real world, enforcement of those rights depend on a shared value system, and they often have a corresponding religious alternative, like "human life is sacred".
Since human rights can vary between geopolitical regions they can absolutely be looked at as a geopolitical issue, in the same way religious wars are geopolitical.
That is not what the OP said. He said it is a religious idea. And it is. Look, you are even using the word "sacred".
For some reason the word "religion" means something bad to you and so you are attacking the idea of something good ("human rights") being in the same sentence as "religion".
The actual definition of religion is broader and can mean simply a set of shared ethics, which human rights clearly are.
I believe there's a video of the "tank man" part of the protest. If I recall correctly, he stands in front of the tank, and then tank tries to shuffle around him unsuccessfully several times, after a while several other people approach and pull him out of the tanks way.
I don't really think it's debunking anything, but that person wasn't run over by the tank he stood in front of.
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[ 2.8 ms ] story [ 74.5 ms ] threadSurely that should be "does NOT want you to see"?
...or has the PRC suddenly been overcome with Glasnost and Perestroika and my phone didn't get the newsflash from Reuters?
Nope, it is "does". But I actually see both "desirable" and "undesirable" images, side-by-side in my results. Pretty funny.
Why I bet soon we can even have free Red-education for misguided souls.
Then saw the video.
Anyways, HN is not the place for geopolitical talk like this. And I dislike the trend of polluting the place with geopolitical rivalries.
When doing with good intent, they're not. Since the US and China are rivals at this point and neither side wants to chill, and given the history of troll farms by many countries to manipulate discourse, I'd be wary of discussion that contributes to a solution.
Since human rights can vary between geopolitical regions they can absolutely be looked at as a geopolitical issue, in the same way religious wars are geopolitical.
For some reason the word "religion" means something bad to you and so you are attacking the idea of something good ("human rights") being in the same sentence as "religion".
The actual definition of religion is broader and can mean simply a set of shared ethics, which human rights clearly are.
And my impression wasn't wrong, most people would've thought that way too given the picture. Stop gaslighting.
For HN to be a community, users need some identity for other users to relate to. Otherwise we may as well have no usernames and no community, and that would be a different kind of forum. https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...
You needn't use your real name, of course.
I don't really think it's debunking anything, but that person wasn't run over by the tank he stood in front of.
Edit: found it - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qq8zFLIftGk