<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rsynnott</author><text>If you’re talking about McCarthyism, then yes, similar dynamic. If you’re talking about today, then don’t be silly.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ausudhz</author><text>somewhat similar to the demonization of communism that the west pushed for decades?&lt;p&gt;Apparently there are many people that are more incline to just smile and nod rather than arguing. Probably the geographical location of these is not really important. They&amp;#x27;re equally distributed across the globe</text></item><item><author>rsynnott</author><text>As I understand it, it&amp;#x27;s somewhat encouraged by the government. China&amp;#x27;s the sort of place where, if the government has a preferred wacky theory, one may be inclined to smile and nod rather than arguing.</text></item><item><author>pringk02</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s interesting that it is the widely believed theory in China, or at least it was often stated to me as fact when I lived there.&lt;p&gt;Seems to stem from the discovery of the Peking Man:
&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Peking_Man&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Peking_Man&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>AbrahamParangi</author><text>There are a number of claims of unique Chinese hominids and they’re typically related to the “multiregional origin theory”&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Multiregional_origin_of_modern_humans&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Multiregional_origin_of_mode...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;This theory holds that humans in different parts of the world are primarily descended from local hominids vs the commonly accepted theory that humans are all primarily and recently descended from a population somewhere in East or South Africa with a small amount of admixture with local hominids.&lt;p&gt;Most people consider the multiregional origin theory &lt;i&gt;highly&lt;/i&gt; motivated reasoning and also completely garbage science.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Remains found in China may belong to third human lineage</title><url>https://phys.org/news/2023-08-china-human-lineage.html</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>joenot443</author><text>This is a wildly off-base comparison to make, I&amp;#x27;d be impressed if your comment stays up for long.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ausudhz</author><text>somewhat similar to the demonization of communism that the west pushed for decades?&lt;p&gt;Apparently there are many people that are more incline to just smile and nod rather than arguing. Probably the geographical location of these is not really important. They&amp;#x27;re equally distributed across the globe</text></item><item><author>rsynnott</author><text>As I understand it, it&amp;#x27;s somewhat encouraged by the government. China&amp;#x27;s the sort of place where, if the government has a preferred wacky theory, one may be inclined to smile and nod rather than arguing.</text></item><item><author>pringk02</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s interesting that it is the widely believed theory in China, or at least it was often stated to me as fact when I lived there.&lt;p&gt;Seems to stem from the discovery of the Peking Man:
&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Peking_Man&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Peking_Man&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>AbrahamParangi</author><text>There are a number of claims of unique Chinese hominids and they’re typically related to the “multiregional origin theory”&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Multiregional_origin_of_modern_humans&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Multiregional_origin_of_mode...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;This theory holds that humans in different parts of the world are primarily descended from local hominids vs the commonly accepted theory that humans are all primarily and recently descended from a population somewhere in East or South Africa with a small amount of admixture with local hominids.&lt;p&gt;Most people consider the multiregional origin theory &lt;i&gt;highly&lt;/i&gt; motivated reasoning and also completely garbage science.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Remains found in China may belong to third human lineage</title><url>https://phys.org/news/2023-08-china-human-lineage.html</url></story>