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Re:Computer Scientists Are Astir After Baidu Team Is Barred ... by ken47 on Thursday June 04, 2015 @12:33PM (#9660350)
The naked racism of this comment is saddening. I'm sure we all know pockets in our societies where cheating runs rampant. Thankfully, people aren't regularly trying to act as though those pockets represent the whole.
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Re:Computer Scientists Are Astir After Baidu Team Is Barred ... by efraim on Thursday June 04, 2015 @01:28PM (#9660698)
The post says Chinese culture, not Chinese people. Discussing traits of a certain culture is not racist in my opinion.
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Re:Computer Scientists Are Astir After Baidu Team Is Barred ... by ken47 on Thursday June 04, 2015 @02:09PM (#9660983)
So if someone were to say that Spanish culture is X, where X was negative, you wouldn't consider that racist either? Perhaps 'racist' isn't exactly the right word, but that seems like splitting hairs.
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Re:Computer Scientists Are Astir After Baidu Team Is Barred ... by abroncs on Thursday June 04, 2015 @04:24PM (#9661808)
Of course it's not racism. You can absolutely discuss the negative aspects of a culture. This bending over backwards to be PC is truly absurd
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