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You absolutely cannot post things like "Russia is the stupidest country" to HN, regardless of your ethnic identification.

I'm ashamed to see such dreck here and ashamed of every user who upvoted this.



This is emotional, but if we sort countries by performance 1915-2015, Russia will be either top loser or in company of some really miserable places.


That's an extreme of oversimplification and doesn't make your xenophobic statement reasonable.

HN has users all over the world, including many from Russia, who deserve as much as anybody not to have their country insulted. It's hard to keep HN civil as it is. Chauvinism is literally the last thing we need, whether driven by shame or some other emotion.

I get that this is an intimate subject for you, not garden-variety prejudice. My criticism isn't personal, and I'm sure we could have an excellent conversation about it face-to-face. But such emotions channeled into political rhetoric release VOCs that HN is in no condition to process.




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