[oldmanthrowit]

Did you really just compare Catalonia: A bunch of rich, entitled Spanish brexiter equivalents to Kurds who are being slaughtered by ISIS, Assad, Russia, and Türkiye?

Really???? I spend 2 months per year in Catalonia. There are no kids without legs in the streets. There are not 4 million refugees there.

Catalonia is identical to a bunch of Rich British wankers feeling that they are entitled to "more".

[dang]

Please don't take HN threads further into political or nationalistic flamewar. Perhaps the GP was provocative, but on HN the idea is not to take provocation and definitely not to blow it up much larger.

We'd appreciate it if you'd read and follow the site guidelines, which you broke badly with this post.

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

[oldmanthrowit]

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[dang]

People with passionate politics usually perceive Hacker News as favoring their enemies. This is a cognitive bias: the comments we dislike make a stronger impression than the comments we agree with, so it feels like the community is against us. In reality, it's a large community with a wide spectrum. The people with opposite politics notice the opposite comments and so have the opposite picture of HN. Here are some examples from what I assume is the opposite side to yours:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21192430

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20956287

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20645202

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20644122

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20438487

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20384662

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20202305

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19912334

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19471335

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19325297

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18664482

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18544961

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18189135

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17197581

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17002125

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16997697

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16947646

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16397133

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16134205

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16085548

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16061393

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16058468

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16022748

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15937781

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15752730

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15585780

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15388778

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15307915

Sorry for bombarding you with ridiculously many links, but maybe that makes the point better.

[overkalix]

Catalan here (and not exactly rich). I think OP's comment was completely out of place, but trying to disregard the independence movement as rich guys entitlement is a an extremely distorted representation of the political reality of Catalonia.

[notebookstack]

I think the comparison in situation/contrast in international attention being made is more between Catalonia and Hong Kong. There's certainly a ton of other important issues causing the unrest, but there is a certain element of xenophobia/ superiority complex in play in Hong Kong as well, that has been simmering for many years.

https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3032041/hong-ko...?

[Barrin92]

this is getting downvoted but its essentially true. The separatism in Catalonia has strong roots in a sort of local superiority complex, not oppression. It's similar to Lega in Northern Italy.

[chr1]

Are you sure that, existence of separate language and suppression of Catalan culture during the Franco period have nothing to do with the desire to have separate country, and only some strange superiority complex causes it?