Please do not take HN threads further into generic, hellish flamewars. This sort of shallow, angry denunciation is not what this site is for, and it destroys what it is for.

If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it. You've broken them in other places recently, too—not cool. Fortunately your good comments are good.

You're right, that wasn't a very insightful or novel comment I made. My apologies for further fanning the flames on this topic.

Thanks for calling me out, and thanks for your efforts in keeping this place interesting..!

Appreciated!

> there's really no excuse for what China is doing to Uyghurs atm.

First make sure everyone agrees upon what happened to Uyghurs first.

China is closed to foreign examination in the sense that they do not want to show all the details. But BBC and western media decide that that's a legitimate excuse to allow manipulative reporting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eS8EceIa1MQ&t=101s

You are not going to get people to be honest, if you try to force that with lies.

Does your evidence of manipulated reporting consist entirely of adjusting the saturation of an image or is there anything more substantial?

Just look at the skin of the human being in both photos - the less saturated one looks 100% more natural (unless the guy actually has orange skin). If anything the over-saturated image is more misleading than the other, more dull, image. But neither are particularly egregious.

The sympathy for the Uyghurs would be understandable, if it didn't come from a country which killed a million of their brethren instead.

This might be hard for you to believe, but there are a lot of people who have genuine and consistent empathy for needless suffering, no matter where it happens. You might not hear from us much online, because we often get crushed under the relentless cynicism your comment chillingly embodies.

Personal attacks like this are not cool on HN, regardless of how wrong someone is or you feel they are, and regardless of how much empathy you embody.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.

> But that wide stretching empathy does not exist.

Yeah, it really does.