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The Holocaust only started at scale after Pearl Harbor, 2+ years after those invasions.
But you're right that typically, it's considered no one else's business what countries do inside their borders.
BBC: The cost of speaking up against China (Uyghurs)
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#22Wow somebody came in and downvoted EVERYBODY in this thread. Five cent army, assemble!
> Five cent army, assemble!
Quick link : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/50_Cent_Party
They also flag posts to take down from the first page. Just look how many votes do this post have but barely on the first page, about to fall down.
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#25Wow somebody came in and downvoted EVERYBODY in this thread. Five cent army, assemble!
> Five cent army, assemble! Quick link : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/50_Cent_Party They also flag posts to take down from the first page. Just look how many votes do this post have but barely on the first page, about to fall down.
It's a shame, I feel like it's our duty to boost these things - it's the least we can do.
Maybe the HN team could manually do "flag locks" for certain articles that are being brigaded?
Reddit has a "controversial" indicator on posts and comments that can help users identify that this is happening(heavily downvoted, but also heavily upvoted and interacted with).
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#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
How do you know that? I'm genuinely curious
Look up almost any genocide or mass killing of the 20th century, even the late 20th century, and see how nobody outside the area gave a damn. Pre-WW2, you've got millions exterminated in the Congo Free State. The Ottoman Empire killed a million Armenians, 500,000 Greeks, 400,000 Assyrians. The British starved five million Indians to death in 1900 and two million Bengalis in 1943 and nobody gave a single solitary shit…
I'm just wondering what kind of genocide can make Uyghur population in Xinjiang grow from 5M to 25M?
Re: BBC: The cost of speaking up against China (Uyghurs)
#27Wow somebody came in and downvoted EVERYBODY in this thread. Five cent army, assemble!
> Five cent army, assemble! Quick link : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/50_Cent_Party They also flag posts to take down from the first page. Just look how many votes do this post have but barely on the first page, about to fall down.
The same thing happened on the other relevant post about an hour ago. Here was my recent comment on that one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26642757
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#28Anyone care to say what they believe should be done, or is this just another mad about things thread?
Anyone have ideas? What is the solution?
Re: BBC: The cost of speaking up against China (Uyghurs)
#29Wow somebody came in and downvoted EVERYBODY in this thread. Five cent army, assemble!
> Five cent army, assemble! Quick link : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/50_Cent_Party They also flag posts to take down from the first page. Just look how many votes do this post have but barely on the first page, about to fall down.
If this is being flagged, it's likely because it's against the submission guidelines. It's hard to see how this gratifies intellectual curiosity, and it's a political topic without an interesting new phenomenon.
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#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Five cent army, assemble! Quick link : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/50_Cent_Party They also flag posts to take down from the first page. Just look how many votes do this post have but barely on the first page, about to fall down.
If this is being flagged, it's likely because it's against the submission guidelines. It's hard to see how this gratifies intellectual curiosity, and it's a political topic without an interesting new phenomenon.
Mass incarceration in concentration camps is not a political issue, it's a human rights issue.