Zenz sucks, but this ironic dipshitting around jailing critics is cringe as fuck.
Maybe actually read the article before just believing what a notorious China watching liar has to say about it. The headline buries the lede. They were arrested for publishing books they didn't obtain publishing rights for, not for criticism. They just claim that "ACTUALLY IT WAS ABOUT US HATING THE GOVERNMENT, NOT ABOUT THE VERY CLEARLY ILLEGAL BUSINESS STUFF WE DID"
Damn, Jack Ma should have just posted a Winnie the Pooh meme and Chapo would have loved him.
Good try. Everyone does illegal shit, they just make examples out of dissidents.
Your rationale is the same that justifies the targeting of minorities for drug laws and traffic infractions. Maybe next time they just shouldn't be doing anything illegal.
Minorities, victims, critics.
- me
Government, corporations, status quo.
- you
You seem to be missing the very clear trend that all of these people crying wolf are "entrepreneurs". So go ahead and equate punishing the bourgeoisie with oppression of minorities and the working class. It just makes you look like a fool.
This literally just sounds like a less explicitly racist version of when Liberals say some shit like "chinese culture is breaking the law", she sold 200.000 illegally produced copies of books but because she once said a critic was good thats the only reason she was punished.
Yeah. Its past time for Chapo to unironically support the jailing of liberals.
He said Geng had been indicted over illegal business activities involving 200,000 copies of mostly cookery books for which the full publishing rights had not been obtained.
“‘Illegal business activities’ is just an alternative charge to ‘inciting state subversion’ when it comes to entrepreneurs who are critical of China’s political ecology,” Ji said. “The purpose is to intimidate, silence and cut off all social networks they have with political dissidents in a bid to isolate them.”
This is literally just a case of some petite bourgeois fucks cutting corners to make a buck and running crying to the western media trying to become an international incident.
This is like the psycho conservatives in America crying about oppression of the MAGAS when they get busted for wage theft or whatever.
Bonus:
Mimi Lau covers human rights, religion and civil society in China. She spent seven years in southern China as the Post's Guangzhou Correspondent before returning to Hong Kong in 2017. Today, Mimi continues to pursue stories across the country, monitoring and reporting on key political and civil issues. She has won numerous awards for her work.
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I just crossed off "didn't read the article" and "believed the first white person at face value" off my Western Liberal bingo card.
For real people, it's not hard. You can also either try and read between the lines with western papers, or look for official records published by China on this shit. Follow sources and see who's saying what.
Maybe the people who just got busted for doing illegal shit aren't the most reliable narrators. Seems like "entrepreneurs" getting caught doing illegal stuff tend to fall back on the "actually, it's because I did this Tweet about Xi looking like Winnie the Pooh" because it gets them play.
Maybe the people who just got busted for doing illegal shit aren’t the most reliable narrators. Seems like “entrepreneurs” getting caught doing illegal stuff tend to fall back on the “actually, it’s because I did this Tweet about Xi looking like Winnie the Pooh” because it gets them play.
Yeah. Its really strange because recent news is full of Chud business owners doing illegal shit and then crying about how libs are targeting them for their beliefs or some shit.
I really want to be charitable and say that most people just haven't made the connection yet.
This stuff is basically identical to the stories in America about chuds doing mask free bullshit and getting shut down.
Andrain Zenz hands you their business card and it reads, "Adrian Zenz, Honey Pot"
Okay, first time seeing his image, not to body-shame or anything, but he literally looks like a CIA/government stooge.
It's a vibe more than anything. You know, the bald/balding middle-aged white dude who wears a suit and glasses and smiles like this
You know he's thinking how he's gonna fuck up some African/South American democracy in that image.
I wish we could just kill a person and end capitalism. I'm opposed to killing, but we all know capitalism can't be reformed. If we lock it away, there's a chance it could break free before we built a better world and ruin everything (again).
This gave me an idea actually - you know how chuds bring up 13:50 a lot? We can respond with how all pedos are white males. or how serial killers are white males. or how all neonazis are...you get the point. It may get them thinking a bit. If not chuds themselves, then maybe this could work on the half-chuds who are being converted to chudhood by a combination of Fox, YouTube etc.
