• anthm17 [he/him]
    13·
    4 years ago

    It's so exclusive it took Xi 3 tries to get in, but it has 90 million members?

    In a country that struggles with income inequality having a high bar seems like it's in danger of just entrenching a new elite class.

    edit: w/ 90 million you're probably reaching a broad segment, I'm just saying this is a weird sort of elitism mixed with being broad.

    • KiaKaha [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      It’s so exclusive it took Xi 3 tries to get in

      For context, his dad was purged and Xi was sent down to the countryside, so there’s a little more going on there.

    • CountryRoads [fae/faer,it/its]
      3·
      4 years ago

      90 million people is around 8% of the adult population. The equivalent would be people in the US who went to "good" Universities. Basically anywhere in the top 50 schools per US News and World Report.

      Functionally, that serves the same purpose here as CPC membership does.

        • invalidusernamelol [he/him]
          2·
          4 years ago

          He's kinda tipping his hand. He probably only knows PMC members so his personal experience with that would be true.

        • CountryRoads [fae/faer,it/its]
          ·
          4 years ago

          I never meant to imply that CPC members were all PMC goons. Just trying to draw a parallel to the US, where no one questions our ~10% elite.

      • anthm17 [he/him]
        2·
        4 years ago

        Right, compare it to say SCOTUS where something like 3 of 9 went to the same elitist high school.

        This sounds more like going to UCLA or UW or something. Pretty achievable barring really lousy circumstances.

    • OgdenTO [he/him]
      2·
      4 years ago

      I think you're confusing exclusivity with minimum threshold of qualification.

      I see what you're saying, but it's not like they sit in Ivory towers and laugh at the failed entrants, it's like graduating from a school, and you can keep trying. Unlike a school, it's not a minimum threshold for participating in society like a degree is here.

      Or maybe it's the same I dunno.

    • invent_the_future [he/him,comrade/them]
      2·
      4 years ago

      I know we're used to just about any clueless person being part of a party and a politician, but "license to drive? You know I'd like to see some competency exhibited by people before they drive"

      And 90 million members already make it the 2nd biggest political party in the world, I'm really not siding with you on it being elitist

      • anthm17 [he/him]
        1·
        4 years ago

        I'm saying ~1/15th of the population does not paint a picture of an elitist party, but the rhetoric of even Xi needing 3 tries does. It's contradictory, but it makes more sense when @KiaKaha reminded me that Xi had more complicated circumstances.

        You're totally right that having standards for entry isn't elitist, that's not what I meant. I'm not judging the CCP, just the post.

    • REallyN [she/her,they/them]
      ·
      4 years ago

      In some dynasties there were exams people took to determine if you could be a government official, it kind of reminds me of that tbh.