damn i bet they have some cool history books over there that're not translated into english. i want to hear hot chinese takes on the soviet union, stalin, brezhnev etc.

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    My entire life i've only ever been told about China as though they are some genocidal Nazis, and everything in the west you ever hear about China is how they're evil and shit. People being interested in learning more about the largest socialist state in the world on a leftist site you think is weird? You can find plenty of negative things about China everywhere, how is it weird to actually want to learn and engaged with other things?

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      My entire life i’ve only ever been told about China as though they are some genocidal Nazis, and everything in the west you ever hear about China is how they’re evil and shit

      I mean I've lived in America my whole life and I never got that, so that's incorrect

      you can find plenty of negative things about China everywhere, how is it weird to actually want to learn and engaged with other things?

      Wanting to learn is fine, acting like China is this magical equestrian where the blessed and holy people dance under the light of heaven itself . I see a lot of that second thing all the time round these here parts

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        Maybe it's an age thing. There is a little period where the sinophobia cooled down. I grew up hearing China forces everyone to abort their second child. It was common knowledge. I also heard all about the terrible suppression of falun gong. However, I disliked our own right-wing religious fundamentalists so much I couldn't help but wonder if China was on the right track.

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        this is a site for people to discuss and shitpost about leftist shit, its not a fucking workers international, get off this high horse bs, if you dont like something you go on and ignore it, you dont have to act like your day is ruined cause you saw people talking about China on chapo.chat