The sinophobia in these comments always makes me uncomfortable because it’s usually underlied with overall anti-Asian sentiment. It reminds me that I don’t belong in America, we still live in a white world.
Note that despite these highly coordinated, anti-China circlejerks (seriously look at the other thread [2], just two down, all the same people and new accounts spouting the same exact nonsense, virtually all of it baseless propaganda) the moderators are to pounce on any "meta-commentary" that tries to pushback or highlight the stupidity.
We need you to stop insinuating astroturfing in the threads ("highly coordinated"). People are simply divided on this issue and it's a gross violation of the HN guidelines to insinuate otherwise. All it does is escalate the toxicity and we don't allow people to do that here.
It's worth pointing out what is actually happening here. This story about "massive internment camps" has been pushed relentlessly on HN for the past two weeks. There's been at least five stories on it.
Actual journalists investigated the story and proved quite clearly the story has been entirely fabricated [1].
Post the results of this story on HN and it is immediately flagged: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17846148
At this point I think it pretty fair to say there is a highly coordinated effort to push a wholly fake anti-China story.
> In reality, of course, it's neither: we're just trying to prevent HN from going up in nationalistic flames.
Somehow you think being "neutral" is the right strategy when one side is invested in a deliberate propaganda effort.
[1] https://grayzoneproject.com/2018/08/23/un-did-not-report-chi...