> Yet these happened in the US. Bizarre and secret government projects also happened. Executions also happened.
Are you confusing GenX with Baby Boomers?
> I'm sure most Gen X Chinese, as you call them, had pretty uneventful lives without any massacres either.
Most? Maybe, I've never met one that hasn't though. So maybe the selection of people I meet is biased?
> It does reinforce the narrative that China = bad, US = good (though this is harder to believe in the Trump era).
Something that was true pre-1995 hardly says anything about China today. Stop reading into supposed western bias where there is none. You would never compare China to North Korea today, but 30 years ago there were some remaining resemblances that quickly dissipated as China hit 2000.
> plus every HN reader "knows" this is life in China, they are authoritarian, etc etc.
Again, you are just projecting some sort of insecurity with this statement.
> Most? Maybe, I've never met one that hasn't though
I'm sure you acknowledge you're not an expert on general Chinese experience. You were an expat, surely while your first-hand experience was valuable it was also heavily limited to what a Westerner in China would see and be told?
> Something that was true pre-1995 hardly says anything about China today.
"Hardly says anything" is a bonkers statement. The recent past of any country definitely says something about its present. We agree China 30 years ago was different from China today, but what does it have to do with anything?
Do you disagree there's a strong anti-China bias on HN? (Whether justified or not).
> Again, you are just projecting some sort of insecurity with this statement.
Insecurity? I think it's an accurate assessment of groupthink about China here. I may have misinterpreted what you were trying to say though, in which case I apologize.
Are you confusing GenX with Baby Boomers?
> I'm sure most Gen X Chinese, as you call them, had pretty uneventful lives without any massacres either.
Most? Maybe, I've never met one that hasn't though. So maybe the selection of people I meet is biased?
> It does reinforce the narrative that China = bad, US = good (though this is harder to believe in the Trump era).
Something that was true pre-1995 hardly says anything about China today. Stop reading into supposed western bias where there is none. You would never compare China to North Korea today, but 30 years ago there were some remaining resemblances that quickly dissipated as China hit 2000.
> plus every HN reader "knows" this is life in China, they are authoritarian, etc etc.
Again, you are just projecting some sort of insecurity with this statement.