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by the_af 178 days ago
> Are you confusing GenX with Baby Boomers?

Maybe it was Baby Boomers, indeed.

> Most? Maybe, I've never met one that hasn't though

I'm sure you acknowledge you're not an expert on general Chinese experience. You were an expat, surely while your first-hand experience was valuable it was also heavily limited to what a Westerner in China would see and be told?

> Something that was true pre-1995 hardly says anything about China today.

"Hardly says anything" is a bonkers statement. The recent past of any country definitely says something about its present. We agree China 30 years ago was different from China today, but what does it have to do with anything?

Do you disagree there's a strong anti-China bias on HN? (Whether justified or not).

> Again, you are just projecting some sort of insecurity with this statement.

Insecurity? I think it's an accurate assessment of groupthink about China here. I may have misinterpreted what you were trying to say though, in which case I apologize.