Message from @GingaBomber
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It's weird because SJWs hate China, but love the policies China put into place
"A protected internet where people can't say things the state disapprove of? Yeah! I love it!"
Because yknow
Fabulous protected speech and all
So funny story. The Chinese constitution protects freedom of speech...
Hahahaha
The Chinese government protect free speech about as well as they protect child workers
Yeah, but let it sink in for a second.
Just because you have piece of paper that is supposed to be the social contract that guarantees you something *does not mean* you will get it.
Which is why this freedom of speech stuff in the US, UK and EU is so damn important.
The Chinese literally have a line in the constitution guaranteeing the people the right to freedom of speech. But they added a couple exceptions to it and simply don't have it.
And it aint like the US where the populace can do shit about it
technicly the chinese population could do something about it, but not in a time of prosparity
and really they will require a political fragmentation
china does nothing without a leader
Well, its also... hard to organize shit
Im talking shit like censors. ANd the fact that google stepping in to help the chinese govt
Yes, let this be a lesson.
First they came for the asians, and I did not speak out, for I was not an asian
Then they came for the europeans, and I did not speak out, for I was not a european
-Americans
Oh yeah, all those japanese people in china lmao
I thought you were talking america
Well, china is authoritarian to the core.
Sure it aint commie as much anymore. But, it still is authoritharian as fuck.
And they have very very little culture to speak of. Theres chinese overseas who have retained more of their culture than the mainlanders.
Thank Mao's cultural revolution for that
er chinese culture was surpressed, by no means was it destroyed, theyve bounced back extordinarally
So the communist party is trying to rediscover traditional chinese culture right now.
Not sure how successful it's been, but they've been pushing that direction as I understand.
its doing pretty well
That's something I always found interesting. whenever I talk to people from Asia, they do worry about "loss of culture" which is something the US and Europe seem completely unconcerned with.
westerners have a tendency to fall more on the extremes of progress and traditional than asians
Do you have a source or do you just think that?
messure progressiveness and traditionalistness
I mean, do you have a source of someone who went and measured this or is it just a hunch?
I have a feeling it's more to do with the cultural elite disregarding the traditional cultures of the west and denigrating people who might revel in any element of it /r/Murica is satire.
im pretty much just speaking from stereotypes
the chinese communists also had a bit of a different philosophy for progress than the west has had. for them it was purely territorialistic, kinda like japan had during the maji but to a more severe degree
to mao, not leaping forward made china volnerible to outside influinces in a way that would ultimately lead to the destruction of china