It’s funny how they act like XI Jinping is literally the government. Not just an official, the whole thing.
Same as Putin running Russia single handedly.
Xi and Putin simultaneously bumbling buffoons yet able to effectively manage the economies, militaries and public relations of nations with populations of 1.4 billion+ and 140 million+ people respectively single-handedly
“The Enemy is portrayed as both weak and strong.”
One of Umberto Eco’s telltale signs of fascism.
Omniscient Imbeciles?
This is also how most Western leaders portray themselves, and westerners accept that too, so… at least there’s some consistency.
That’s exactly why it works. Projection. Westerners are so used to thinking one guy is in charge of (usually) messing up everything that they think that’s how every other government works too.
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China has been curbing academic freedom in recent years
Have you noticed this hilarious trend of liberal media accusing Xi of being more authoritarian than his predecessors like if there was ever a moment where they called the PRC free or democratic in the past
Maybe they miss the dirt cheap labor prices pre-Xi
(or maybe they just hate socialism, without the maybe)
lol yeah
Didn’t happen fast enough, just recently there was another west worshipping “professor” called out by one of his students for his pro western material. The student ended up getting doxxed by pro western libs.
Still plenty of cancerous libs in the education sector which are downplaying or outright rewriting everything the imperial Japanese or the west has done as “good for the country”.
Textbooks with suspicious symbols also became a focus point as many of them were linked to pro western groups. From Japanese symbols to a kid dressed in an American flag t-shirt destroying the great wall, these fucks are doing everything they could to earn their state department paycheck.
From desecrating the flag and map
Inappropriate shit like this
Many of them are hiding under the cover of being “pro peace, pro Ukranian” and even on social media sites if you even so much as critisise NATO and the US you will labelled as a “pinko, wumao, yellow skinned Russian”. The best part is that some of the most rabidly pro-western and anti-self dogs happen to be g*mers who hadn’t even graduated lol.
Oh hold on. That middle collage image has had the script flipped on it. It’s from a sex education textbook, a section about sexual abuse. They educate kids about this stuff in primary school. Top two are pictures of inappropriate behaviour, bottom left has had the pervert with a camera cropped out.
Bottom right I have no idea but the book those other three are from is based as fuck. Other pages from that book that liberals won’t be so quick to share are the pages about respecting homosexuality and asexuality, and that it’s wrong to shame people for choosing not to marry or follow other social norms. It runs completely against the Western narrative about what sex education is like in China.
This is deeply disturbing. This cannot but be a result of the economic coupling of China and the US since the 70s. It is no wonder why they have such a foothold and gain ideological praise within the nation. Xi is entirely on point in reforms towards national alliance as this isn’t simply liberalism, this is a devotion towards imperial capital. The difference between the two is clear with the case of Russia. Liberals of course are still liberals no matter their state of development and so the only true solution to this is expanding Marxism within the PRC.
Yep, they’re trying to replicate what they did to the USSR through historical nihilism (历史虚无主义). There are constant efforts by them to degrade and throw dirt upon the names of national martyrs and heroes of not only the PRC, but also Marx, Engels, Stalin, Che, Castro and others. During the western orchestrated protests a few months ago, some of the paid libs in Shanghai exclaimed “what foreign influence? Marx and Engels are foreign influences, we’re here of our own free will”
If their goal is achieved, the leadership of the country would believe western lies and throw away everything that their forefathers had built…
Right now they’re trying to stoke nationalism and drive a wedge between the PRC and Russia.
This is despicable but one can expect nothing of honor to come from imperial capital which has time and time again proven itself to be of the most reactionary nature. This too is another example of the PRC’s inherited responsibility to overcome the failures of the USSR. If they were to fail their failures too would simply rollover onto the next proletarian power. If they succeed their lessons must be studied and learned to be replicated so as to cutoff yet another of the dubious tricks the bourgeois use against our class.
I saw a lot of that stuff on the Chinese internet. Yes, it’s disturbing, but after 2939944 posts with the same four images over and over again it tends to get tedious. Also I think it was a teacher, not a student.
Authoritarian!! Have a look at the constitution for any western university and you will find a clause about upholding academic freedom.
But don’t forget the subclauses. One will say ‘subject to commercial needs’. Another will say ‘in accordance with liberal values’. So China is doing exactly the same thing as western universities already do (and which China likely did before this change).
The real problem, which the journalist is too afraid to admit, is that liberals can’t fathom a system of thought that pressuposes the constancy of change:
… including diplomats, executives and writers face pressure to incorporate the broad, often fuzzy tenets of the ideology into their policies and work.
In Hong Kong, because of the joint declaration, socialist values and SWCC aren’t required in the education system. HK is specifically protected from such communist brainwashing. 😏
Instead, the HK Education Bureau now requires teachers to promote virtues such as love for justice and social justice, caring for and protecting the community, helping each other, sharing, collectivism… yep, no socialism here. 🫡
My liberal teacher friends are fuming about it. They can’t do things like that infamous river comparison worksheet anymore. So unfair! Waaaa.
They’re free to leave any time they want, of course. They could go back to their free-er, liberal, home countries… but they’re still here, cashing the (huge) paychecks and not worrying about the mortal safety of their kids on school days.
Libs are gonna have to be doing increasing amounts of coping with each and every year going forward.
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Quite a misrepresentation of Yellowstone lmao
I’ve never been. Seen it on TV and thought it might be nice to visit but I don’t want to get shot by racists or police or a wandering Dick Cheney. What’s it really like?
There’s a lot of people. The place was kind of dying but the reintroduction of wolves has been helpful. People throw shit into the springs and treat wildlife like a sideshow.
Still everyone loves the parks because it is all part of US nation building and engineered nostalgia. In the US there are no 700 year old cathedrals like in grandfather Europe so the national parks are meant to turn stolen landscapes (some 27 tribes have ancestral ties to yellowstone) into the cathedrals of American empire. Seeing the parks is effectively an American pilgrimage, especially for middle income white suburbanites, and the wealthy with their mega RV busses in private encampments near the parks. Now they tirelessly try to be “inclusive” but ultimately poor folks can’t easily make such a pilgrimage.
The parks are also a symbol of problematic understandings of the land and nature with many myths including pristine, untouched beauty (as is shown in the text) which both serves to erase Indigenous people that managed the land for millennia and promotes terrible ideas about conservation. The parks exist so white people can find the American God in the mountains and rejuvenating their little imperial souls as they throw shit into geyser.
Also they become so baffled when they get lost in the woods and die that there are thousands of videos on YouTube of people crying over conspiracies that must be happening in the park.
There is so much to say but I can only regurgitate things I have learned from my partner who is studying the parks for their graduate work. Also I have been to many parks including Yellowstone several times, mostly in my youth.
undefined> Also they become so baffled when they get lost in the woods and die that there are thousands of videos on YouTube of people crying over conspiracies that must be happening in the park.
Oh is this where the legends about bigfoot and yogi bear come from?
Bigfoot comes from Native origin stories
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Nah that was never normal. This example sparked outrage, it was waaaay out of line and emboldened by the civil unrest at the time.
It actually might have been a good thing, because it got people asking , “if that’s out of line, where is the line?”.
Now we have a line. And a lot of teachers are terrified of it and portray it as overly-draconian, but that’s because they’d grown so used to slinging microaggressions toward mainlanders, mainland culture, and mainland government.
But it’s the same kind of line that everywhere else has. Promote good values. Don’t promote sedition. Don’t cheerlead for the foreign government that wants to destroy yours and subjugate you.
“confirmed to Bloomberg News that he posted the document, saying he got it from a foreign law professor in China. He declined to provide more information about its origins” seems legit ¬_¬
LOL
Took them long enough
That font is damn good.
'Bout goddamn time.
“seven taboo” topics that are banned from discussion in classrooms, including freedom of speech, universal values, civil rights and past mistakes the party made.
Sounds legit; I’m sure that Bloomberg isn’t misrepresenting or grossly oversimplifying reality (again).
not like it’s a propaganda outlet of the empire, right… right?
lol there are plenty of peoples on the Zhihu (their version of Quora), Weibo and Bilibili worshipping the “universal values”, “freedom of speech”. These libs often refer to the US as “the motherland in my dreams/that I have yet to see”.
“the motherland in my dreams/that I have yet to see”.
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Though US would probably like more Chinese slaves, the railways build by the previous batch desperately needs replacement.
Part of the blame goes to immigration agencies which portray the US as a utopia with free universal healthcare, complete equality with no racism and 1 dollar mansions.
The ones that stay within the country and constantly spread this are on a payroll… while the ones that get conned into spending a huge amount of money to move there learn very quickly about racist hospitality lol.
