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There may also be bad sentiment leaking over from the media blackout and ethnic cleansing in Kashmir. FWIW I think that’s silly and stupid to take it out on the space agency, but it’s also human.

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Can you cite a source for ethnic cleansing? Per a Guardian report, if the military is to be believed, five people have been killed in thirty days. That is tragic but not quite on the scale of the claim.

As per guidelines.."Please don't use HN for racial or national or religious or ethnic or any other kind of flamebait. This is all off topic for HN, and we ban accounts that post like this repeatedly."

Im gonna say it because Dang apparently isnt (to this comment)

Thank you. I want to add an aside here: I have chronically abused the rules of this site in the past. I was ignorant as to the mission of Hacker News and how it can help me! I realized that my ideas are worth having a slow, measured conversation punctuated by facts and understanding of other views just as well as my own. I was falling into a trap of politicizing truth and losing my way in the process.

I’m thankful dang gave me the opportunity to change.

If you consider serious allegations of ethnic cleansing to be flamebait, you're the exact phenomenon that enables it.

Secondly, if you think this doesn't play into international perception of India at the moment, I'm not sure what would be on topic.

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