Honestly in addition to this I have seen many liberals in China starting to realize that America is actually pretty awful and have their image of it shattered. I have seen so many comments where Chinese liberals are like "wait the government was telling us the truth?"
And all it makes me do is laugh as I realize that no matter where you are, liberals will always be fucking stupid.
I think this will be the major thing that comes out of this whole fiasco, Americans by and large won't change their minds, but a lot of Chinese libs who view the "beautiful country" as some sort of paradise will be forced to recognise that is all just hollywood and America is pretty bad and just getting worse, while China keeps getting better.
watching this sentiment get displayed on the daily show & cobert openly bringing a gov't representative to spout propaganda about tiktok was mind blowing for me; i have difficulty enjoying either show now because of it.
i complain; but i've been wanting to wean myself of tv anyways so i must convince myself that this is a good thing. lol
Taiwan's 1450 troll army as well as the libs on reddit and twitter wanting to infiltrate XHS and pose fake shit on XinJiang or TiNyMaN SqUaRe only to get mass banned.
And then there's some Zionists making their way onto platform only to be told to fuck right off by the users lol.
The tide is past turning on the Sinophobic propaganda.
People who are still saying stuff like in OP's screenshot are wilfully ignoring evidence that's freely available to them. They are choosing this for themselves, and I will enjoy watching them burn up in their own hatred.
Sadly, the innate human propensity to “hate the Other” seals our fate as a society… or something along those lines.
I am going to argue that this narrative is nonsense. It tries to pass off as universal and eternal something that in reality is particular and ephemeral. In short: Westerners aren’t helpless innocents whose minds are injected with atrocity propaganda, science fiction-style; they’re generally smug bourgeois proletarians who intelligently seek out as much racist propaganda as they can get their hands on. This is because it fundamentally makes them feel better about who they are and how they live. The psychic and material costs are rationally worth the benefits.
I agree with the sentiment but I'm scratching my head trying to work out what a bourgeois proletarian is.
Bourgeoisie = owns the means of production
Proletarian = owns and sells their labour
So a bourgeois proletarian is... a worker that sells their own labour but also owns the means of production? Like an employee at a state-owned business within a dictatorship of the proletariat? So like most Chinese people? So putting that back into the quote, Westerners are generally smug Chinese? Oh! Like Gordon Chang or Ian Miles Cheong or Melissa Chan.
brb need to wash my hands after typing those three names all in a row
This article from redsails is so great and I think it's probably been one of the most impactful pieces of writing in altering my perspective and approach to organizing.
I never had TikTok but I'm considering getting on Redbook if only just to show solidarity, and also from what I've seen the community developing there is very cool
I did it and don't regret it. I'm actually considering posting videos of actual conditions in the US eventually. Show Chinese libs what American prosperity really looks like, from an American.
I genuinely feel like the idea of developing international solidarity with like-minded people halfway across the world is really and genuinely the kind of hopium that is needed in order to keep the American left going right now (at least in terms of morale)
Is this a projection of the federal reserve concentration camps policy in British diaspora against Indigenous people who demand reparation for the 150 years of fake school death camps and inheritance thief from the fake cultural assimilation?