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curuinor · on July 17, 2018

Dude was fully employed as effectively-tenured (tenure track, theoretically) professor for a decade. The forcing out was for 100% political reasons. If he treated China as an Other, then it was with a decade's worth of experience living full-time in China.

throwaway37585 · on July 17, 2018

Got anything to back up those insults of yours?

> the author himself didn’t reflect on anything in his time in China

Patently and objectively false to anyone who read the article. It really makes me wonder what your motivations are for lying so blatantly.

ShabbosGoy · on July 17, 2018

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throwaway37585 · on July 17, 2018

> he describes a caricature of a Chinese person, reminiscent of a Fu Manchu type character

Explain where you think this happens.

> Your motivations were clearly revealed the moment you created a throwaway account my man.

Explain what you mean by this.

Careful, my account is older than yours!

throwaway080383 · on July 17, 2018

I think you missed the year in Shab's account start date.

throwaway37585 · on July 18, 2018

I did, my mistake :) Not that it should matter at all.

FWIW I've had older accounts on HN but abandoned them a while ago.