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What's up with the term "baizuo"?
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Honestly didn't know the etymology coming from an unhinged weirdo, but I've generally used it (irl mind you, I'm in China) as a handwaive when family asks about why X in the west is bad/inefficient/non-existent and "right wingers" isn't the cause.
Like what's with the aversion to nuclear power? Combination of 白左 and also the fossil fuel lobby.
Or if a policy that does (ostensibly) benefit poor people but is means tested to death, and they ask why it's set up like that. 白左
But I don't really often hear it in China. My family is just weirdly politically engaged due to being former Party members and revolutionaries. The average guy in the street is absolutely not going to use the phrase ever.
Yeah sure weirdos on XHS will also use it to refer to any aspect of the Western "left" they see online that they disagree with, but it's wholly inconsistent. Could be addressing Ultras. Or trots. Or liberals. Or redditors. Or nazbols. Or socdems. Or demsocs. I feel like XHS comment sections are like 2 steps away from calling Shanghai 白左.
The aversion to nuclear power here in europe is mostly the cultural scars that chernobyl had on Europe along with various different instances of massive polluting by major companies and nobody believing any for-profit company could be trustworthy enough to manage it safely.
It can't be understated how significant Chernobyl was on european mindsets about nuclear power. That shit legitimately did nearly destroy europe and people's attitudes to nuclear power were very heavily affected by it. Those attitudes then passed on.
Absolutely true. There were so many stories about chernobyl and zaporozhye during the russian war as well, about how the russians were bombing the nuclear power plant, the workers there facing difficulty, assessing by some world nuclear assessment organisation or whatever being impeded, the soil around chernobyl being disturbed and russian soldiers dying because they are careless with radioactive stuff etc. on and on and on and on
Isn't this the general sentiment there already? I thought they already thought of Shanghai as honorary westerners, or trying way too hard to be westerners.