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980 points nkcmr | 5 comments | 06 Jun 21 19:21 UTC | HN request time: 0.656s | source
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toxik ◴[06 Jun 21 19:50 UTC] No.27415754[source]▶
Chinese originated spam and abuse is so outrageously widespread, I don’t understand why there isn’t a conversation going on about cutting them off from the wider internet. They blocked most of it anyway.
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jmartrican ◴[06 Jun 21 21:00 UTC] No.27416273[source]▶
The other trending article on HN today is about Chinese fishing boats abusing the world's oceans. Its ok, we'll learn to get used to it.
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1. corndoge ◴[06 Jun 21 22:20 UTC] No.27416890[source]▶
Any criticism of China can be construed as being pro-US and we can't have that. Criticism of Chinese traditional medicine, which is a forcing function for the endangering and extinction of species across the globe, is also unacceptable since criticism of any aspect of a culture is just racism (unless it's the one culture that's okay to criticize).

As long as the truth doesn't match what the preferred narrative is we'll continue to suffer the consequences, which is true of so many things beyond just attitudes towards China.

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2. mwcampbell ◴[06 Jun 21 23:03 UTC] No.27417173[source]▶
> the one culture that's okay to criticize

That would be one's own culture, whichever one that is.

3. xwolfi ◴[06 Jun 21 23:30 UTC] No.27417356[source]▶
Many of us in China are absolutely saying Chinese Traditional Medicine is garbage and there s no "western medicine", just medicine.

It's not racist in China to say the truth, why is it where you are ? You probably live in an oppressive political regime with a biparty dictating what you can think ? :P

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4. peteretep ◴[07 Jun 21 01:26 UTC] No.27418034[source]▶
> It's not racist in China to say the truth

mmm, I have had a number of Chinese people explain to me the “truth” about people of various races over the years

5. yourapostasy ◴[07 Jun 21 03:38 UTC] No.27418779[source]▶
> Many of us in China are absolutely saying Chinese Traditional Medicine is garbage and there s no "western medicine", just medicine.

I sure hope that "just medicine" extends to Po Chai pills. So welcome for treating diarrhea symptoms (despite my initial skepticism) when loperamide wasn't available while I was traveling in China!