[5trokerac3]

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

[dang]

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."

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

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21194189 and marked it off-topic.

[throwaway2048]

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.

[dang]

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.

[smogcutter]

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

[thaumasiotes]

> a Chinese term for a deep bow of respect

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

[yorwba]

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

[5trokerac3]

I used a c and it got autocorrected to that

[purple_ducks]

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

> Appropriately enough

Ironically enough, you're misusing this phrase.

[Invictus0]

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