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My favorite genre of Chinese social media post is translated right wing ragebait imported from the west
(hexbear.net)
1/4 of the comments are about how blue-haired transgender leftist college kids have destroyed America with feminism and 3/4 are people dunking on them with screenshots of Kirk’s racist tweets about Chinese people
I find the sheer quantity of unmoderated racism and bigotry I see on XHS sometimes pretty unsettling. It's not just the "blue haired trans people blah blah blah" shit but also serious reactionary anti-black racism that's entirely indistinguishable from american right wing shit. Really feels like it goes unmoderated because they don't think it matters to domestic China.
From a comment I made a while back: There is a certain segment of noncommunist Chinese nationalists that basically believe the exact same things as the average Fox News-addled American boomer about woke liberals destroying America by legalizing crime and importing violent migrants and opening free crack distribution centers, except they think it’s good that it’s happening. Just last week I watched a video on bilibili where the guy said San Diego residents are forced to watch millions of migrants invade America by lining up at the border where CBP assigns them free luxury mansions no questions asked if they lie about being abused. Anyway the conclusion of the video was that America is becoming the Qing dynasty because of the moral decay caused by marijuana legalization, and that this is poetic justice. I would not recommend clicking on any video that has anything to do with BLM either
Clearly the great firewall isn’t great enough. Social media seems to be a hotspot of this kind of shit, regardless of the country.
Yeah this is the kind of shit I'm talking about. They need to address it. China can't have international solidarity with the world while a huge chunk of its people are being convinced of this shit.
XHS was called before the CPC recently to answer to concerns about them not fostering a healthy online community actually.
Yeah but none of that was in the reported list of reasons they're being called up.
I don't think they care about their population saying the issue with america is black and trans people because it doesn't affect their own country much. They care about the things that affect their country. If these were affecting things within China then there would be some sort of effort to resolve it.
I've learned so many problems with China from just lurking XHS, problems that are way worse than what the western media typically complains about. Without going into too much detail let's just say I think the party needs to change the rule that disallows joining the CPC if you have a family member convicted of a serious crime. It causes really horrific situations.
Do you have an example?
Alright one example of a problem this can cause, I'll leave others up to imagination.
CW:SA
spoiler
Women that get r*ped by their husbands will keep the repeated r*pe they endure private because their husband undergoing criminal conviction would prevent the children from pursuing a political career.It's a bad rule. It shouldn't exist.
Fiscally socialist, socially conservative
Yeah things get really bad when you scratch beneath the surface and really look at just how significantly conservative the backwards parts are. Huge amount of work needs to happen and it's not going to happen just by economically uplifting people either.
:what-the-hell:
Yeah, it's a shit rule. It absolutely needs to go away.