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Re:China to ban online gaming, in-game chat with foreigners ... by taikawatiti on Thursday April 16, 2020 @12:39AM (#22886125)
You realise Chinese have members of peaceful community in a literal concentration camp. I mean it's arguable whether it's good or bad because I've never met their particular peaceful community and don't know how much more peaceful it is but still mentioning so you can adjust your trigger.
Re:China to ban online gaming, in-game chat with foreigners ... by dang on Thursday April 16, 2020 @05:43PM (#22893881)
Please don't take HN threads further into nationalistic flamewar. These threads are all the same and we're trying to avoid endless, angry repetition here.

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

Re:China to ban online gaming, in-game chat with foreigners ... by julianlam on Thursday April 16, 2020 @12:46AM (#22886154)
I don't see what this has to do with the colloquial naming of SARS-CoV-2
Re:China to ban online gaming, in-game chat with foreigners ... by dmix on Thursday April 16, 2020 @01:21AM (#22886352)
There's a ton of viruses named after the place of origin:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mononegavirales#Order_organiza...

Informally that number is way higher.

It's as common to use the original geographical source of the virus in the name as it is to use some chemistry/biology/latin driven name or in your case an acronym.

Following formal guidelines in scientific papers and other formal discourse is another matter. Newspapers, social media, interpersonal communication, etc isn't a big deal IMO. People know what they are referring to. That's all that matters in that sort of language, humans are smart enough to figure out context and intention. Especially since there's nothing inherently 'wrong' with using relevant identifiers like geography.

Trying to constantly redefine and re-purpose certain words/phrases in absolute terms is an arbitrary and endless fight against the reality of everyday language. It's ultimately a giant waste of time that only adds more personal/political/ideological baggage than it removes, to what common-sense was already more than sufficient to handle. It's also just as often used to 'spin' and attack people and purposefully misinterpret people's intentions and context of usage, despite it being obvious to the rational reader, as it is about 'protecting' others. It then makes us question your intentions in 'correcting' them as much as theirs in using it, and we're no better off in terms of clarity. The less of it, the better.

Re:China to ban online gaming, in-game chat with foreigners ... by bllguo on Thursday April 16, 2020 @02:59AM (#22886874)
not only is this unrelated, the whole justification for the concentration camps to begin with was uyghur terrorist attacks. i cant defend the concentration camps, of course, but "peaceful" just seems disingenuous
Re:China to ban online gaming, in-game chat with foreigners ... by xster on Thursday April 16, 2020 @12:59AM (#22886215)
I suppose you're referring to the NED funded CHRD article which has since become gospel?

https://thegrayzone.com/2019/12/21/china-detaining-millions-...

Imagine if the Chinese army could materialize new media realities.

Re:China to ban online gaming, in-game chat with foreigners ... by aorth on Thursday April 16, 2020 @02:16AM (#22886651)
Yes I realize that, but the Uighur issue is unrelated to the current discussion...
Re:China to ban online gaming, in-game chat with foreigners ... by ookdatnog on Thursday April 16, 2020 @01:20AM (#22886343)
This is just a textbook example of whataboutism.

One can object to a use of language that is likely to stir racist sentiment against Chinese people, and more broadly Asian people (as we very much have seen especially early in the outbreak), without implying support for the CCP.