I'm quite concerned with how this site appears to forget what "critical support" means. It's crazy how defensive people get here over China.
I asked my Chinese language partner about this and she confirmed that it's real, and that many Chinese people are upset about it too. Just because they do some cool socialist stuff doesn't mean that many of them aren't socially conservative boomers who are concerned with tRaDItioNAl VaLUeS like everywhere else.
You really, really cannot fault people for being skeptical about China news. Recently, we had the whole abortion ban thing, which turned out to be obvious bullshit (the same line about reducing - not limiting - abortion had been in the document for like 20 years). It's wrong to assume bad faith in what's actually totally reasonable skepticism that sometimes goes a bit far.
This sissy men shit does look like CPC boomerism, and OP is being a dick, but that doesn't mean everyone who's been skeptical has been wrong to think that way.
Honestly I think people here know and what's happening is more of a deliberate decision. The left projects in the US & UK collapsed with socially progressive NGOs playing a huge part and with some of their most prominent leaders siding with the capitalist to kill off any material gains for most people. This combined with how poorly Chomsky's and other left academic hand wringing over the Soviet Union has aged is probably pushing people to abandon the pre-bernie alignment and throw all in with China.
It's also hard to overstate how many Americans are simply in really bad situations and would rather have Chinese policies regardless of any social conservatism.
There's definitely a current of social conservatism within the party, which is one of the driving forces behind the "sissy" thing, but given the evidence currently at hand (as far as I can tell from this mess of a thread), I'm not seeing banning same sex relationships from games.
I'm hoping for a proper translation of the source document or a Sixth Tone article in the coming days to clear this up.
I'm quite concerned with how this site appears to forget what "critical support" means. It's crazy how defensive people get here over China.
I asked my Chinese language partner about this and she confirmed that it's real, and that many Chinese people are upset about it too. Just because they do some cool socialist stuff doesn't mean that many of them aren't socially conservative boomers who are concerned with tRaDItioNAl VaLUeS like everywhere else.
You really, really cannot fault people for being skeptical about China news. Recently, we had the whole abortion ban thing, which turned out to be obvious bullshit (the same line about reducing - not limiting - abortion had been in the document for like 20 years). It's wrong to assume bad faith in what's actually totally reasonable skepticism that sometimes goes a bit far.
This sissy men shit does look like CPC boomerism, and OP is being a dick, but that doesn't mean everyone who's been skeptical has been wrong to think that way.
Honestly I think people here know and what's happening is more of a deliberate decision. The left projects in the US & UK collapsed with socially progressive NGOs playing a huge part and with some of their most prominent leaders siding with the capitalist to kill off any material gains for most people. This combined with how poorly Chomsky's and other left academic hand wringing over the Soviet Union has aged is probably pushing people to abandon the pre-bernie alignment and throw all in with China.
It's also hard to overstate how many Americans are simply in really bad situations and would rather have Chinese policies regardless of any social conservatism.
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This is the real crux of the thread, because the "sissy" shit is bad but also already well known. Banning relationships would be a whole new thing.
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There's definitely a current of social conservatism within the party, which is one of the driving forces behind the "sissy" thing, but given the evidence currently at hand (as far as I can tell from this mess of a thread), I'm not seeing banning same sex relationships from games.
I'm hoping for a proper translation of the source document or a Sixth Tone article in the coming days to clear this up.
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