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Buzzfeed journalist denied China visa following coverage of Xinjiang crackdown

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Re: Buzzfeed journalist denied China visa following coverage of Xinjiang crackdown

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Not excusing YC because I don't care about them, but Jesus, stop trying to apply the standards of the liberal west to all the world. Say what you will but they're finding a solution to the Muslim problem, something the west doesn't have the balls to do (and by the time we come up with something it'll be too late)

What do you believe the “problem” is, exactly?

What will it be “too late” for?

Re: Buzzfeed journalist denied China visa following coverage of Xinjiang crackdown

#22

Why is this even a news on HN ? All governments including USA denies visa to foreigners for political reasons. I remember USA denying visa to an Indian chief minister in past because of lobbying by evangelists and Islamist. It might come as a surprise by American journalists are not entitled for a visa from China and I wish more countries would crackdown on click-bate rags like Buzzfeed.

Foreign journalists based in China write critical stories about China on a regular basis. It's a bit bizarre to me why you're calling Buzzfeed a "click-bate [sic]" rag when we're talking about a journalist who had just published an investigative story about the Chinese police state involving Uyghurs.

Re: Buzzfeed journalist denied China visa following coverage of Xinjiang crackdown

#23

Not excusing YC because I don't care about them, but Jesus, stop trying to apply the standards of the liberal west to all the world. Say what you will but they're finding a solution to the Muslim problem, something the west doesn't have the balls to do (and by the time we come up with something it'll be too late)

Concentration camps are a problem, not a solution.

Re: Buzzfeed journalist denied China visa following coverage of Xinjiang crackdown

#24

Not excusing YC because I don't care about them, but Jesus, stop trying to apply the standards of the liberal west to all the world. Say what you will but they're finding a solution to the Muslim problem, something the west doesn't have the balls to do (and by the time we come up with something it'll be too late)

> Not excusing YC because I don't care about them, but Jesus, stop trying to apply the standards of the liberal west to all the world.

No. Please stop pleading for exceptions to basic human rights.

Re: Buzzfeed journalist denied China visa following coverage of Xinjiang crackdown

#25

Not excusing YC because I don't care about them, but Jesus, stop trying to apply the standards of the liberal west to all the world. Say what you will but they're finding a solution to the Muslim problem, something the west doesn't have the balls to do (and by the time we come up with something it'll be too late)

No, no, no. Terrorism is a problem, but a very small minority of Muslims are terrorists. If I lived in China, I would be at least as violent. Concentration camps are terrible. I've spoken with people who lived in them. Don't ever support them or call them a "solution" to the "problem" of an ethnicity, religion, or culture. That's what the nazis did.

Re: Buzzfeed journalist denied China visa following coverage of Xinjiang crackdown

#26

Not excusing YC because I don't care about them, but Jesus, stop trying to apply the standards of the liberal west to all the world. Say what you will but they're finding a solution to the Muslim problem, something the west doesn't have the balls to do (and by the time we come up with something it'll be too late)

What do you believe the “problem” is, exactly? What will it be “too late” for?

1. Muslims come to the US

2. Progressives embrace them

3. Muslims slowly acquire voting majority in specific regions

4. Muslims start implementing Sharia Law (aka religious law) in the US due to the number of voters and democratic voting principles of the US.

5. Progressives will complain about their slow loss of rights, but can't do anything about it.

6. The US becomes an Islam-controlled territory.

That's the problem.

Re: Buzzfeed journalist denied China visa following coverage of Xinjiang crackdown

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An indirect reminder that now that YC China is a thing @sama and @paulg and any other affiliated will have to avoid saying anything negative about China in order to keep doing business there.

Miss out in the future number one market on earth or stand up for human rights? Certainly a scary future.

It's happened before. Think of all the Fanta those settlers in the Reichskommissariat Moskau are going to drink!

Re: Buzzfeed journalist denied China visa following coverage of Xinjiang crackdown

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Why is this even a news on HN ? All governments including USA denies visa to foreigners for political reasons. I remember USA denying visa to an Indian chief minister in past because of lobbying by evangelists and Islamist. It might come as a surprise by American journalists are not entitled for a visa from China and I wish more countries would crackdown on click-bate rags like Buzzfeed.

see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17820654

Re: Buzzfeed journalist denied China visa following coverage of Xinjiang crackdown

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I wonder how many pro-China green accounts, accounts used solely for anti-US sentiment, etc we will see commenting on this story. It seems the propaganda folks are turning more attention to HN.

There were 3 at the time of this posting with the usual bothersiderisms, etc. One even went full "Sharia law in the US!"

Re: Buzzfeed journalist denied China visa following coverage of Xinjiang crackdown

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

What do you believe the “problem” is, exactly? What will it be “too late” for?

1. Muslims come to the US 2. Progressives embrace them 3. Muslims slowly acquire voting majority in specific regions 4. Muslims start implementing Sharia Law (aka religious law) in the US due to the number of voters and democratic voting principles of the US. 5. Progressives will complain about their slow loss of rights, but can't do anything about it. 6. The US becomes an Islam-controlled territory. That's the probl…

Something like this has probably been said at least once about every group of immigrants in the history of the United States. As far as I know the only time it ever became true was when white people displaced the Indians.
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