bruh are people this fucking dumb to fall for this shit?

The Answer is yes. This is America

    • undernopretext [he/him]
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      Oh hell yeah. Aside from the regular armed police patrols, nothing was different in the way you were treated if you were a ethnically Han citizen (resident or tourist) or foreign national.

      this was years ago before the Chinese government felt sufficiently sorted out and kicked out all the sex pest "english teachers" (my god may those fuckers rot in hell).

        • Alaskaball [comrade/them]
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          So a lot of foreign countries hire teachers from English native countries to come in and teach English to their students for a few semesters so they can gain fluency that can only be learned from casual discussion.

          Obviously dogshit pedos use this as an opportunity to prey on kids they're hired to teach.

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              They're not immigrants they're foreign hired labour specialists.

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                  They are not immigrating to the countries they're hired by, they're literally just there to work then leave after their stint is up. Whether they want to immigrate and naturalize or not is entirely a separate topic to the fact they've applied to work the job

                  And back on topic, the demonization comes from the rich western tradition of vermin using their wealth and cultural power to sexually exploit their way through whatever foreign lands they visit. This is why countries that hires foreign language teachers to have such applicators be submitted to astringent standards to weed out possible sexpests.

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            oh pal, forget even the child predation angle, it's more like every fucking bar has some sketchy expat talking about his MBA trying to sleazeball his way into people's pants.

            It's gross, creepy, and rapey as all hell.

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          The slow increase of travel controls and general "yo if you don't have a good reason to be here, fuck right off" for foreigners, that's all.

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          Not Xinjiang in particular but a lot of English teachers in third world countries are sex pests or pedos. They don’t stick around in one place for long, they’re treated with respect, and have access to children. It’s fucked.

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      Yeah Radio War Nerd did an episode a while back where they interviewed a Russian journalist who went there as a tourist. Xinjiang is basically a literal police state (as in, there are police with anti-knife attack gear stationed in every small town shop and checkpoints in transit hubs) but you can move relatively freely around the region.