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Re:China's new Long March-8 rocket makes first flight by magicsmoke on Wednesday December 23, 2020 @08:16AM (#25517288)
It's the equivalent of the Valley Forge Rocket. An arduous trial in the birth of a young nation which incidentally happened to go on and genocide an entire continent of indigenous cultures and people's and forever remove them from the world's collective heritage.

Just let people decide what parts of their own history they want to have pride in, especially if it doesn't affect you. Don't try and control the world and force everyone to think the same as you do.

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Re:China's new Long March-8 rocket makes first flight by djbebs on Wednesday December 23, 2020 @09:57AM (#25518187)
Genocide denial in hackernews?
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Re:China's new Long March-8 rocket makes first flight by tomcam on Wednesday December 23, 2020 @02:24PM (#25521101)
History denial in hackernews?
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Re:China's new Long March-8 rocket makes first flight by bigpumpkin on Wednesday December 23, 2020 @10:38AM (#25518662)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_genocide
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Re:China's new Long March-8 rocket makes first flight by tomcam on Wednesday December 23, 2020 @02:25PM (#25521111)
This is true! But we don’t celebrate it or proudly name rockets after it
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Re:China's new Long March-8 rocket makes first flight by dividedbyzero on Wednesday December 23, 2020 @09:47AM (#25518076)
> Our history with Native Americans is not a morally uplifting one. It is also not a genocide.

What a weird thing to say. Of course it was a genocide, that some tribes may have been slavers or that a meager remainder of their people and culture somehow survives in reservations doesn't make what Europeans and the early US did to their people and culture any less terrible, or not a genocide.

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Re:China's new Long March-8 rocket makes first flight by tomcam on Wednesday December 23, 2020 @08:44AM (#25517551)
Wait a minute, now I am kind of fascinated by your thinking. Am I to assume that if an Austrian member of hacker news were in fact proud of the Third Reich that you would refuse to criticize their decision to support calling something the Hitler rocket? In your words, after all, people should decide what parts of their own history they want to have pride in.
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