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  • RedWizard [he/him]
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    3 months ago

    The Han Chinese one is something I wasn't even aware of but have had people mention to me previously. Where does that come from, exactly? Also, the "social credit score" one tickles a brainworms still, I know it's likely nothing like how it was described to me in the past, but I don't even know what the reality behind that one is.

    • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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      3 months ago

      Social credit scores, in so far as they aren't just a fabrication, are a way of policing businesses to keep them from doing anti-social practices. Private citizens don't have any kind of "state loyalty score," just a normal criminal record (or lack of one, of course)

      • RedWizard [he/him]
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        3 months ago

        Got it, and considering every American believes themselves to be some temporarily embarrassed millionaire, they extrapolate that to mean ME, they want ME to have a social credit score!

        • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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          3 months ago

          It's not even that, they have no idea about it being for businesses. They just imagine the 1984 stasi assigning every individual citizen a numeric value that represents how the government judges them and then rewarding or penalizing them accordingly. It's seriously just a myth that people believe because "some guy said so" is all they need to believe something bad about China.

    • RedDawn [he/him]
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      3 months ago

      Funny, I was just denied housing today due to my social credit score being too low. I live in America by the way

      • RedWizard [he/him]
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        3 months ago

        I'm sorry to hear that, Patriot. Please approach the pew and give Ronald Reagan nine Hail Marys and eleven Pledges of Allegiance.

    • vger@lemmy.ml
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      3 months ago

      I don’t think Han supremacy/replacement theory has a singular origin. I think it comes from a confluence of:

      • Chinese state imperialism theory
      • Recycling of white supremacist great replacement theory
      • Projection of white supremacy itself
      • Rolling up Tibet/Uyghur/Hong Kong into one big undifferentiated ball of Han/CPC oppression


      In fact quite the opposite has been happening thanks to China's affirmative action policies