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>These judgments about entire countries are much too grandiose and strident to count as thoughtful comments here.

They are not really thoughtful comments. I dont know how productive they are but I guess some people appreciate them. I dont want to contribute to a circlejerk of "we hate china". For sure not.

I usually get carried away though.

>Those readers have a right to come here and not see comments denouncing their country and often (by implication if not explicitly) their ethnicity, and in a way their families too. Moreover, since such comments are pure flamebait, they are a vector toward this site destroying itself with flamewar and we have a duty to prevent that.

Sure do I have the right not to be dismissed by "americansplaining"?

I dont really disagree with anything you have said I just find it incredibly difficult to discuss controversial topics on the internet.