China bad tho, right lemmy liberals?
China bad tho, right lemmy liberals?
Don’t look at the Uyghur and Tibetan genocides behind the mirror. Look any country that ce realizes power in the hands of few will inevitably have that power used in terrible and stupid ways, you see that with the supreme court and the current president of the US, but you definitely saw it with the Stalin and Mao regimes back in the day and Xi isn’t that much better. Just because you aren’t aware of their expansionish and international bullying tendancies doesn’t mean they don’t exist. You can say that the current US government is bad and still be right about the CCP being bad as well. The best government is one that is responsive to its peoples needs and even if you ignore the genocides above just look at how Xi’s government handled lockdowns where they literally welded people into their apartments to stop the spread of covid, the crackdown on Hong Kong’s protests and free speech over their elected representatives being decided by the CCP and not the people of Hong Kong, the land grabs in northern India, the territorial claims in the south china sea, and all this while their country is suffering a severe economic crisis created by the government central planning and how properties are managed in china. Is there good in China? Yes they have a vibrant tech industry that is able to upgrade GPUs on the fly with more ram or build custom Iphones for example but that doesn’t stop the fact that private messages are scraped and purged if they don’t comport with the allowed speech from the CCP.
You might think that means I like the current way things are going stateside but that would be wrong, with tech giants asking for legal ID for using your own hardware, for backdoors in encrypted messaging, for you no longer being able to own what you bought and paid for, means that freedom and privacy seems to be commodities that the rich and powerful, no matter the type of government, don’t want you to have. I can guarantee that the fact that we can’t get universal healthcare in the US has a similar issue in china that they would love to have access to and wouldn’t be hard to implement but would mean that CCP control would be lessened, be it freedom of speech (see Tineman Square protests), freedom of assembly (the same), freedom of movement (see covid restrictions where people were welded into their apartments and certain regions of china (not just military instillations, where people can’t enter or leave such as Xinjiang).
In short China is what it has always been a land empire in east Asia who forces homogenity in their culture and doesn’t like dissent, but promotes education for at least the ruling class and usually becomes too top heavy and collapses in on itself into civil war that kills millions.
In short China is what it has always been a land empire in east Asia who forces homogenity in their culture and doesn’t like dissent, but promotes education for at least the ruling class and usually becomes too top heavy and collapses in on itself into civil war that kills millions.
Holy Orientalism.
You are a racist.
I hope you get a chance to look in the mirror and better yourself.
Wow. Just wow. You can’t possibly be this wrong, can you?
Let’s start with naming things. Han. The predominant Chinese culture you refer to is Han Chinese.
Let’s look at one law that everyone loves to talk about - the One Child Policy.
Did you know that the One Child Policy only applied to Han Chinese? That’s right. The Chinese government explicitly and openly promoted heterogeneity by limiting Han birth rates explicitly. Some other minorities were also restricted, that’s true, but they were restricted to two children - double the birthrate of the Han. All the other minorities were unrestricted.
That’s just one example of how wrong you are. Shall we do others?
Tibet and Xinjiang educate their children in their native language, in their native cultural traditions, and the governments of those regions run those regions in accordance with their best interpretation of the confluence between their own traditions and the Chinese system of government.
Let’s compare that to the US or Canada, shall we? No? You don’t want me to explain how Indian boarding schools literally beat children for speaking their native tongue, forcibly cut their traditional hair styles, and trained the children to hate their own families? You don’t want to hear about how such boarding schools existed into the 80s? Should we talk about US eugenics programs and the forced sterilization of a full third of the women on Puerto Rico or the forced sterilization of black and Indian women on the mainland? Is that too much for you?
How much more wrong can you possibly be?
China officially recognizes 11 languages that can be used to conduct official business. Eleven. Most American politicians couldn’t even name 11 languages.
Do you still think enforces homogeneity? Are you so committed to your position that evidence cannot do anything to your Yellow Peril brain?