I did it, lads.
I did it, lads.
Apparently "nationalism is bad" is an uncivil take. Unless there's another reason someone would ban this comment... 🤔
I dated a Chinese student at university. She seemed alright until somehow the topic of Tibet came up, and then she went full tankie describing how the Tibetan people were nearly subhuman, living terrible lives with no ability to care for themselves.
I've heard people say similar shit about indigenous Americans and yeah I think it's safe to say that you cannot understate the dangers of propaganda and nationalism.
Oh man, Asians hate so many other Asians so ferverently it's impressive. I knew a Japanese girl whose mom threatened to disown her if she dated any "Chinese hell bastards" (which was in fact, every Chinese person.)
Ain't no racism like Asian racism. I lived with a Chinese buddy of mine for almost 10 years. He said American racism has nothing on Asian racism. Some of the Chinese and Japanese people legitimately despise each other. Long history of atrocities between them.
Same with Korea and Japan...
Imperial Japan did some fucked up shit.
That's horrifying honestly
I would've left the room
American nationalism is bad because it's an empire. That take is allowed.
Chinese nationalism, however, is good because it's also an empire.
Ahhh. The vague and often confusingly unexplainable “Rule 1” violation on .ml that all the minions residing there always seem to find a way to pretend doesn’t exist when their beloved shithole of an instance’s strapped down oppressive bias is under attack.
I got mine yesterday too!
I mentioned bending over for dictators and they claimed it's implied homophobia. Before getting banned, I asked if we're back to assuming everyone on the Internet is male and got replied "oh look, I'm not a bigot, it's implied misogyny not implied homophobia"...
The expression isn't about any specific gender or sexuality, it's about the power dynamic... It's about the fact that people will do anything to please their masters.
Ah yes good ol Rule 1 "Bigotry" the classic .ml go-to
Whenever you bring up the bans though the more prominent .ml users will proclaim that people mostly get banned for "bigotry" on .ml and there's definitely no problem with opposing viewpoints.
This is the "bigotry" they speak of
Edit:
I got banned for saying China and the DPRK are oppressive regimes and that Ukraine has a right to exist because I violated “rule 1”. The irony lmao
pretty much par for the course on lemmy, you can't have any interesting discussions about anything because you just get banned before it starts to get exciting.
seems to be most of the internet these days though. Dead internet theory and what not, although im convinced it should be altered slightly into three groups rather than two.
- people who are genuine real people and act like them (10-20%)
- people functionally indistinguishable from a bash script running coded responses (i think this is like 40% of the internet)
- chatgpt (whatever the remaining percent is, who cares.)
The brainwashed ideologies in Chinese Students
sigh
During the first year of the Korean War, Edward Hunter, an American journalist who had worked in wartime intelligence, and post-war with the CIA, coined (or, more accurately, first popularised) the term brainwashing
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Hunter_(journalist)#Journalism
In March 1958, Hunter testified before the US House of Representatives' House Committee on Un-American Activities. He described the US and NATO as losing the Cold War because of the communists' advantage in propaganda and psychological manipulation. He felt that the West lost the Korean War for being unwilling to use its advantage in atomic weapons
It's a bit funny to hear people use the term without recognizing it's tortured and sensationalist history. "We've been tricked into not kicking off a nuclear war" isn't what most people think of when they hear "brainwashing". But during the height of the Red Scare, that's what Goldwater conservatives and John Bircher reactionaries were arguing for.
That's very interesting, and I genuinely do appreciate the history lesson, but what exactly are you trying to communicate? That brainwashing is only possible in North America because that's the population it was coined for? That the act only constitutes brainwashing if it's coupled with calls for violence? That brainwashing is a strictly government term and using it colloquially has no meaning? That I should fully detail every term with a unique historical significant etymology?
There's a lot of weird insinuations and half takes that don't add up to a complete idea in this post.
The term is an invention of propaganda used to dismiss outside views. You'll see it in the Christian community to describe why kids come out as gay or transgender as often as by state officials describing why foreigners stubbornly refuse to accept Western economic orthodoxy.
There’s a lot of weird insinuations and half takes that don’t add up
To understand why a CIA agent would describe people critical of the Korean War as unable to think for themselves, you do need to learn about the Red Scare first.
If things don't add up, go out and fill in more of the variables.
It was Hunter's variation of the Chinese term "xinao", meaning "cleaning the brain."
social situations must be exhausting in your life huh
I've definitely upset a lot of people with a little bit of history.
What's rule #1?
- Be civil and nice.
This is the specific rule as it is written in the sidebar.
Which is funny, because if you go back through my comments in that same thread, I had far more uncivil and mean comments elsewhere. But the one that got removed and banned is the one that speaks to lived experiences with Chinese (and American) nationalism in a fair and reasoned way? I was unsurprised when I discovered I had a ban. I was grinning like an idiot when I saw what post did it.