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No CPC ever sold off my future to fund forever wars
I visit China frequently for work and feel that the impression most older Americans have of China is incredibly out of touch. The traditional media portrayal of the country is definitely a part of this. Yes, it’s certainly an authoritarian state, but this doesn’t change whether the people are nice or what they want in life.
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I think it’s probably better to simply say that “authoritarian” is a buzzword, though your implied argument that all states work by exerting authority on (at least some portion of) their population is certainly true. Anyone who uses a term like “authoritarian” rather than even a marginally more-descriptive negative term like, idk, “bureaucratic” or “state capitalist” (which gets misused, but I digress) is immediately demonstrating themselves to have untrustworthy judgement on the topic
maybe bring back totalitarian and use it against countries like the US? have a word that, like Huey P. Newton said regarding coining the term ‘pig’ for police, “highlights the contradiction”, in this case, between the selective usage of a word and it’s inherent meaning, none of which is understandable without contradictions from a prescriptive linguistic context
You are probably right, I was really just trying to talk about how, as it currently stands, the people who use the term are basically just expressing either that they fell for a thought-terminating cliche or are expecting their audience to fall for it.
Fuck off hexbear
And every functional family.
wait i have something relevant to say too…
All happy families are alike, all unhappy families are unhappy in their own way. — Anna Karenina
It is authoritarian to ask your children to go to bed on time
no I think it’s, um actually, only when parents tell their kids in china / s <— to indicate it’s sarcasm
Traffic lights in China is a sign that the CPC will go to extreme lengths to micro manage traffic and human movement.
Authoritarianism was a bullshit term invented by child-fucker libertarians to frame themselves as being the good guys.
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I’ve been once for work. Didn’t have an issue with anyone there. I live in Australia now and a few of my friends are Chinese. In fact, I’ve had 2 Chinese really good friends / best friends
None of them agree with the government at all
Propaganda works.
What’s funny is I can’t tell if you’re talking about younger Americans refusing to hate China or older Americans chanting “China Bad!”
refusing to hate
Lmao
Both tbh
American failures are being used to prop up Chinese successes. This is particularly true in urbanism discussions. China is by no means perfect and thinking that they are is harmful to progress.
Perfection doesn’t exist, but China is on the right track imo
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I’m a fan of their life expectancies surpassing the US - though that’s barely an accomplishment, every developed country seems to have beaten America in that regard lol
Have we forgot about the fucking Uighur concentration camps? Suddenly there’s no waitlist for organs after these camps start going up? China bad.
Edit: go educate yourself https://worldwithoutgenocide.org/genocides-and-conflicts/genocide-of-the-uyghurs-in-western-china/forced-organ-harvesting
300,000 people are on the organ donor wait-list in China at this very moment.
You’re a perfect example of the power of propaganda lol
The organs I don’t know about but the reeducation camps are not exactly secret, both for Uyghurs and their own people. There are many issues the US has but at least the average citizen doesn’t have their government disappearing them for thinking the wrong thoughts.
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The US has a ton of problems, I’m not saying it’s a great country to live in necessarily (I wouldn’t move there given the choice). But it’s not a dictatorship where laws are optional for the government.
Maybe freedom doesn’t mean anything to you when you’re not the one being reeducated though.
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Western propaganda clearly isn’t working on young people.
, but at what cost?
My company has an office in China and I’ve been there many many times.
Chinese people are like all other people - same needs, same hopes and dreams, same fears, same drivers. In the city where our office is located, they are extremely hard working and want to ensure a better future for their family. Just like most American cities.
Their city is very high tech, moreso than many American cities because they skipped a lot of legacy technology.
They don’t necessarily subscribe to the same moral/value system as Americans, for example they often see copying each other’s ideas as a compliment whereas Americans see it as stealing. Kind of like - if it’s possible to copy, then it’s fair game - so don’t make it possible if you don’t want it copied. Perhaps that drives a different kind of innovation.
Obviously there are many more cultural differences. But as a people, we are all essentially working with the same needs.
All that being said I don’t appreciate the great firewall when I’mthere, the censorship, and the fear they have about discussing banned topics. I don’t appreciate the high-tech security cameras at every corner, or all the tracking of activities. The younger generations tolerate this for now because they are wealthier than their parents and told to cooperate, but that may not hold long term.
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Further proof that Reddit and gamers aren’t the best representation of young people. Also really liking the fits that they’re wearing in the picture.
Redditors are mostly millennials and gen x anyways
I cannot view the article but from the graph it seems “young” means those aged 18-44. They should have been more granular here because variations within this range would have been interesting to see as well.
The kids are alright
“…and here’s what we need to do about it.”
China’s a great guy
Isn’t it a general trend that younger people, on average, are less xenophobic / racist / bigoted than the previous generation? I also remember reading somewhere that younger Chinese people are friendlier to Japan, South Korea and the US than their parents.
I got a highly upvoted post removed for saying “be nice to Chinese people but f#$ the ccp.”
Guess what t@nk!e instance just got added to the filter list. I recommend everyone else do the same
What if the majority of Chinese support the CPC?
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Who’s publishing that statistic?
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The populace wants stability, the government wants power. Even if they have popular support right now, I still see it that civilians ultimately just want what we all want. The CCP doesn’t.
The CPC doesn’t? How so?
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I can’t if you don’t tell me what instance it is.
The majority of that age range still considers China an enemy, but a tiny fraction of ambivalent onlookers out of an overwhelming majority of a reflexively anti-China populace is enough for the Economist to dedicate an article to a fucking YouGov poll.
It’s just another pearl-clutching “what’s wrong with today’s youths” headline to panic the elderly while flattering compliant millennials/zoomers for being one of the few (despite still being the majority!) “good ones” that march goose-step with consensus Western political thought.
The fact that Taiwan isn’t mentioned in either the article or the referenced study speaks volumes.
Hong Kong and Taiwan are the primary opposition point for anti-CCP and represent Xi’s primary failures in soft power policy.
It’s kinda shocking too, since his predecessors were masters. 100 year strategy thrown in the sea for a dick measuring contest in one city.
Xi shat the bed 2012, and now everyone paying attention knows his government’s guarantee’s aren’t worth the paper and ink of printing.
Most US kids think Taiwan is another country. If China invades they will be the enemy.
