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When I first saw the images I thought the tanks killed him/ran over him. That's what the first impression was.

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.

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So by ‘debunked’ you mean to say that your impression was wrong and you’ve learned the correct information that most others already knew?

Indeed. If most others know, good for them I guess. I didn't know, so I mentioned for others. I'm not well versed in Chinese history.

And my impression wasn't wrong, most people would've thought that way too given the picture. Stop gaslighting.

Could you please stop creating accounts like this? We ban accounts that do that. It's in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

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.

So human rights are just a geopolitical issue?

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.

I didn't realize something like "human life is sacred" was up for debate.

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.

Perhaps I misunderstood OP's tone.

Imagine the mental gymnastics you have to go through to defend China's clear disregard for human rights and human life.

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