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Comment by Daho0n | Hacker News Reader

>I'd like to think that extreme racism, homophobia, and other forms of bigotry won't be a winning recipe

It worked just fine in/for the US though. Look back at the US's rise to where it is today and it was pretty bad. Another example is that it is still pretty bad in the US today and it is top dog anyways. I doubt it will make any difference in PRC either.

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In the last thirty years:

+ The US has decriminalized homosexuality and was one of the first countries to have same sex marriage

+ Has had robust hate crime laws and strong equal rights protections

+ Is slowly but consistently rolling back low level drug offenses

We always have to compare to our peers, not some unicorn standard. The US had continually been an extremely liberal and accepting society even with it's faults and missteps.

Yes and we should compare apples to apples not a ripe apple to a green one (or a unicorn). PRC and the US are in two totally different places in their development and you cannot compare directly. China won't go from 0-60 in zero days just because other nations are already up to speed. They have to go through development itself and it is, much faster than the US did. It isn't an attack on the US which your comment reads like you believe. It's just that a country that is going through a metoric rise does not get everything right from day one because others have it somewhere else. It takes time.

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