I mean... I kinda get it, but nowadays it's starting to get absurd.
(EDIT: This was supposed to be a "blow air out my nose and get on with my life" meme...)
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Tradition is big. E.g TCM crap over science
You cannot disagree with the state
Stokes fear and hatred of outsiders
Blames social frustrations on those outsiders
Appeals to restore past glory
Han ethnic supremacy
You could go through all of Eco’s points and apply them to China pretty fittingly.
Genuinely, what on earth are you talking about? China's past is full of poverty, humiliation, and exploitation, literally, "The century of humiliation!" The only people who "appeal to restore past glory" are the CIA-funded Shen Yun performances romanticizing "China before communism." The Chinese people I talk to will specifically point to the Qing as a clear demonstration of the danger of clinging to tradition and the necessity of adapting and looking forward.
China literally had a cultural revolution seeking to abolish tradition. I expect you would call that fascist just as you call if fascist whenever some people still follow tradition, after all:
Technically you could make thinly-veiled criticisms against local governments, but just not the central government or Xi Jingping
Or you can talk shit about the government behind closed doors, there are no telescreens like Orwell's 1984.
That shit is fucking annoying. My mom keep telling me anti-depressants are bad 😓
Been on xiaohongshu for a while now and the chinese netizens I interacted with were nothing but kind to foreigners even when we treated them like shit.
Anecdotal evidence means nothing, doubly so from a .ml troll.
You can literally go on XHS or douyin and speak with them yourself
I’ve lived in China. I’ve had Chinese live with me. I actually know shit without going on social media and being fed propaganda.
Do tell, I'd love to know about your experience there
You're interacting with the ones who are still allowed internet access.
Hold up, you think people in China aren't allowed to access Chinese apps? 🤣
Many of them use VPNs to get around firewalls and I speak with them aswell on other platforms. I am learning mandarin and it is quite helpful. I don't like everypart of their society, there is still some of misogyny and homophobia that makes me uncomfortable but I have seen worse here. The people of xiaohongshu are actually making great strides to combat this and I applaud them. I have probably spoken candidly with people from every major city. What makes you think people without global internet are inherently more reactionary. Wouldn't their views be reflected in the people that have that access as well? If it is so nation wide?
Cool.
I'm glad their lives aren't hell under their fascist regime.
Most of the time when a country tries to make an ethnostate the main race get to live pretty good lives.
Wild that you actually think China is a Han ethnostate. Are you the type to believe they are sterilizing their minorities?
Cool, I didn't even say Han and yet you knew what I meant.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Han_Chinese#%3A%7E%3Atext=The+Han+Chinese%2C+alternatively+the%2C75%25+of+the+country%27s+population.
There are long running documented campaigns of cultural erasure of China's minority groups. It's no shocker that a country with billions of people they would use ethnic clensing to maintain social stability.
I said Han because I am well aware that is the ethnic majority in China lmao. I'd love to see your sources for the ethnic cleansing.
The ottomans had a stupid amount of ethnic minorities and managed to last for centuries. Ethnic and cultural diversity does not necessarily mean instability. Xinjiang and Tibet are autonomous regions for a reason.
It's history at this point
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecution_of_Uyghurs_in_China
You shouldn't argue in favor of an ethnostate for any reason, it's cringe
I literally did not argue for an ethno state but ok
please see my other commment in thisn post about how much of that is bullshit. you do know wikipedia is primarily western and is going to reflect the biases of westerners and the claims of western governments right? As someone who is studying history in an official capacity as we speak it is laughable that you would use it as a source. it is legitimately especially egregious that you would use a western non-primary source to back up western claims about their largest geo-political enemy.
Ok what about Robert Paxton’s? Those are a lot better thought out as his actual focus is fascism rather than it being a side gig like it is for Eco.
This is all some seriously internalized US propaganda.
What is? Calling China fascist isn’t American propaganda because the government and its sources do not claim China is fascist. The Americans calling China fascist are poorly educated in fascism. China is authoritarian but not fascist.
I'm agreeing with you for the most part, their list of talking points is the propaganda.
Anything negative of China is propaganda says the .ml tankie.
Gee, you wouldn’t happen to be utterly biased at all.
Lmao you know ml just stands for Mali in this case right? Like do you think they're doing ideological purity testing when you sign up? Do you think my whole instance is CCP agents?
So if you post on social media "I think Dictator Xi should be removed from office and we should have real elections again" nothing will happen?
I feel like something happens if you post that in China that you don't want to talk about.
You can’t ask that in any authoritarian nation so. that isn’t demonstrating that China is fascist.
Doublethink is cringe.
Stop with the mental gymnastics before you pull a muscle
Saying something “is cringe” is a great way o demonstrate poor communication skills.
Nothing you mention is unique to fascism nor would be used by educated people to determine if a nation is fascist.
It’s ok that you know nothing about fascism as that is downright common on Lemmy but don’t double down on the arrogance after proving your ignorance.
What happens? Do you have any evidence of what happens besides your imagination?
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/thousands-of-people-being-disappeared-in-china-for-criticising-the-communist-party-or-being-too-rich-and-powerful/3M32MV2ZIFJ6ZKY3BKCH4XWCLA/
We don't have to imagine because they do that already.
This is exactly the propaganda I'm referring to. I'm sure some people are being detained unjustly. I'm also very sure that number, whether per capita or in raw headcount, is a lot lower than in the US.
Nothing is real if you don't want to engage with it.
Sorry this makes you uncomfortable
Using language like "disappeared" to refer to detainees just because the Western media can't conduct interviews with them in prison is textbook propaganda-speak.
sure