| Could you please stop perpetuating this flamewar? Other commenters are doing it too, of course, but you've done it the most. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for. I totally get that you have good reasons for feeling so strongly about Cambodia, Vietnam, and so on, and I also get (to some extent) how the root comment was provocative. It did sound like it was putting down an entire population, or at least was easy to take that way. But going into aggressive abstract argument is not a helpful way to respond. It just degrades the discussion, poisons community further, and causes everyone to dig in. A more helpful way to correct any misperception in the OP would be to share something of your own background that leads you to perceive things differently, i.e. to express your own personal experience and what it has taught you, that's relevant to the topic. You don't have to do that, of course—it's just an option. But we do need you to respect the site guidelines when posting here, and you've been breaking them badly in this thread. That's not ok, even if your views are entirely correct and your feelings entirely justified. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Edit: your account has unfortunately been posting nationalistic flamewar comments in other threads too: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45587866 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44649278 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44626745 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44626401 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44626241 We ban accounts that do this, so we really need you to stop. |