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Comment by 5trokerac3 | Hacker News Reader

Not all costs are monetary. The long term ramifications of our businesses cow-towing to mass-murdering authoritarians is far greater than potential profits.

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Please don't take HN threads further into flamewar. You seem to have been doing that a lot, and it's not cool here. Please review the site guidelines and note: "Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive."

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Its important to be civil, and not point out the fact that the CCP have murdered millions of people. That would definitely be an uncivil flamewar comment.

No, it's important to be kind and thoughtful, avoid calling names, post substantively, and do the other things that site guidelines ask. They aren't hard to understand:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Denunciatory, flamey rhetoric obviously doesn't meet those criteria.

Appropriately enough, the term you’re looking for is kowtowing (not towing cows), a Chinese term for a deep bow of respect.

You understand the phrase though right? There was no ambivalence on his meaning or usage.

> Appropriately enough

Ironically enough, you're misusing this phrase.

Give me a break, this guy literally just wrote out "cow-towing"

> a Chinese term for a deep bow of respect

Not so much a "deep bow" as "prostration on the ground".

Literally, hitting (叩/kòu) one's head (头/tóu).

I used a c and it got autocorrected to that

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