I love these weird articles about surveillance in China as if South Korea isn’t covered in security cameras and as if you won’t be imprisoned there if you publicly say anything positive about the DPRK.
America has more security cameras per capita than China, but for some reason panopticon comparisons are reserved for the evil see see pee...
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Oh phew, I was worried that the privacy-destroying security state might have democratic oversight. Or worse, be completely separate from the profit motive.
the UK has more CCTV cameras than anywhere on Earth but these people would rather Hong Kong belong to them than to their own country.
As someone with a uterus I'd still rather live in liberals' weird perception of what china is than America rn 🤷♀️
It’s worth noting that rates of hate crimes against trans people are way lower in China. They don’t seem to be as virulently transphobic even if they are broadly a bit more ignorant on the subject as a whole population.
The sentiment of Chinese populations and officials is that they don't care if you trans and have law to protect trans peoples, what they don't like is blasting propaganda and promote it as new norm.
They are not ignorant on the subject - ignorance is the active refusal to learn something. The Chinese public is, to my knowledge, largely uninformed on the subject and therefore mostly neutral on trans issues, whereas the Western public gets actively disinformed by TERF nests that are allowed to persist even in heavily supervised Western media outlets like the BBC. While cis people obviosuly do not understand something as unfamiliar as the trans struggle without education, actual anti trans sentiment isn't normal, it has to be actively bred. Reactionaries would make you believe that the West is constantly bombarded with pro-trans propaganda, when in reality the very opposite is true - in a media landscape that has been completely sanitized of dissent on imperialist and capitalist orthodoxy, debating if i should be allowed to exist as a trans woman is one of the last subjects that are used to give people the illusion of freedom of speech. Being a transphobe is not a crime punishable by re-education as it should be, it is instead a permissible position in today's marketplace of ideas, a last retreat where journalists who are not allowed to be publicly racist and homophobic anymore can enjoy a little bit of hate speech, as a treat.
Shanghai seems to have botched handling the initial outbreak. Other Chinese cities managed to lock down without creating too much of a mess for everyone. But since the west can't view China as anything other than Xi's totalitarian dictatorship, they'll never be nuanced about anything.
If what I read is true, "their botching was exactly cuz they dragged their feet "to not be so harsh" and then panicked; all because they wanted to act bratty against the central government".
Source: trust me bro, I read it somewhere. I don't know shit about dick so take it with a carload of salt
I mean, it's the largest city in the largest country on earth. Cut them a little slack.
You just absolutely know they had another article queued up: "Zero-Covid at long last fails as COVID-19 massacres millions of people with no end in sight"
...which they would have much rather printed.
Not today, capitalist swine.
Don't worry, I'm sure it's not the same Li Yuan that wrote this Epoch Times article about Shen Yun from 2009
It's the Epoch Times, so it's basically a CIA front. So more fascist than liberal anyways.
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Authoritarian excess is when you prevent mass casualties at least 5x greater than Hiroshima.
it was fucked up for Xi to pick up Shanghai and carry it to xinjian
Freedom is letting people die of easily preventable causes, and the more people that die the more free you are
Well I'm going to take this as an admission that some of the claims about Xinjiang were exaggerated. Unless she's suggesting that the CPC genocided itself.
I like how they put cameras everywhere to how it's a surveillance state. When I walk to the nearest store I'm under constant video surveillance but somehow that's different?!
