People are taking this as a dig on China, but it's a tale of how fragile nationalists are the world over. This is a level of dumb on par with freedom fries.
Yes it’s a very stupid law. “No cooking fried rice on anniversary of death of son of great leader who cooked fried rice in Korean War during bombing run, literally exposing his own position”
Sure, everyone must become a martyr for the noble cause and sacrifice their entire career so you can conveniently upvote and move along to the next meme. Fucking A+ 5/5 gr8 b8 m8
The guy he reposted is a literal cult member, of a cult they still glorifies foot binding and is known worldwide for spreading lies about China. Literal cult member. Of a cult implicated in trafficking. Not taking the video down would be the bigger piece of shit move. Don’t promote cultists.
Mao Anying, a Chinese military officer, was killed by US bombers on 25 November 1950 during the Korean war. A persistent but frequently denied rumour says he was trying to cook egg fried rice instead of taking shelter, and the smoke from the fire exposed his position to enemy forces.
Was bombing in the 50s something where they'd say, "oh look, there's some smoke from a fire, let's hit that"? Or was it more like, "ok, this looks like the target area coming up, let's drop our bombs and hope they hit something useful and explode properly, or at least explode when an enemy finds them during this war"?
I mean, I know WWII bombing was like the latter and at some point they drastically improved precision and communication between ground teams and bomber teams, but had they done so yet by the Korean war?
Even in WWII bombers would visually identify target areas. A valley of suspected enemy positions that is the target area is much less easily confused for the valley next to it if there is a dumbass running a fire.
See also why London's lights were turned off in WWII.
Overwhelmingly type A. However, at least according to my faulty memory of the literature I've read, they were doing some of the initial testing with guided munitions. Mostly focused on bridges, though, which is an odd place for fried rice. Anything else seems like dumb (bad) luck.
It’s fascinating how authoritarians demand respect, but throw fits over such petty symbols. “Our DIVINELY chosen, absolutely perfect leader’s own son was killed while DEFINITELY NOT cooking with eggs. How dare ANY true citizen take pride in making such a VULGAR dish?! Egg fried rice shakes the very foundations of our flawless, unshakable regime!”
The dumbest thing about that to me is that if the story about Mao is taboo, then people are not supposed to be talking about it.
If it's also something as mundane as egg fried rice, then it becomes possible that this chef simply forgot the taboo story because nobody talks about it.
Also, by making something as inherently inocuous as egg fried rice taboo, they are only drawing attention to the rumor. And the fact that the CCP are so bothered by it would make any reasonable person conclude that there must be some truth to the rumor.
Thanks China, without your censorship I wouldn’t have learned this absolutely humiliating story of your past. You are so weak because your pilots cook rice in eggs! Now the secret is out!
What's sad is that the same level of stupidity could be said about America with anything that someone is immature enough to get offended over. At least we don't disappear people all day every day constantly. If we keep getting offended by stupid shit then it becomes increasingly more possible though.
I ask purely out of laziness for something I'm sure I could find in a basic search far shorter than this post, but, what exactly is a tankie? I see it used here as a (I assume) derogatory term but the definition is never obvious based on context clues... I assume something, something pro-CCP / Tianemen massacre?
Not constantly... There were those badgeless, patch less guys throwing people into minivans a few of summers ago. Also people straight up getting murdered in the streets (or their own fucking beds) by "public safety" officers.
Not to defend China cause they have their own brand of fucking awful, just pointing out that there's a whole rainbow of ways to be terrible and these are but a few.
The problem with talking about China is how hard it is for any news to get out of that country that they don't want you to see. I dated for a long time and nearly married someone from the Chinese mainland, and the stories are so sickening of how easy it is to get 'disappeared' I mostly blocked them from my memory. Of course Winnie the Pooh (Xi Xinping) has made things considerably worse and worse so I try not to even think about what they pull now, particularly with their infinite number of cameras and AI face recognition to make it impossible for you to be free in any way.
People have tried to protest several times there, but of course the CCP is quick to act against and disappear anyone with that kind of behavior. So a few months ago they had a more covert protest (though obviously it's going to get found out about) where they simply held up blank pieces of paper as a sign of protest, since they knew they weren't allowed to say anything bad about the CCP without serious repercussions. Good luck trying to find anyone who did that, as the government went after them and also put some other ridiculous measure in place that I can't recall off the top of my head.
If you have legit friends in China though, then you can get the skinny on what really goes on over there. Assuming they're not too scared to even tell you in code since everything is constantly being monitored. They're disturbingly close to a richer North Korea at this point unfortunately. Definitely don't believe anyone saying that censorship and detainment isn't constantly happening though. Criticize the CCP while in China? Good luck ever escaping, and if you have any close friends/family they will absolutely be used as hostages. The CCP will do absolutely everything they can to look good in the public light though, so their extreme tight control over information prevents us from hearing about so many things, and any accident caused by their shoddy construction, if it does get reported, will be said to have a casualty count of 18, when in reality 300+ casualties would be the very minimum possible death toll by the most optimistic possible estimates (like awhile back when an underwater tunnel flooded and you could physically see and count at least five times as many dead bodies from stealth-footage taken than the reported death toll actually was).
It's just westerners that pronounce that kind of A sound aaaaall the way up our noses. You're correct, according to what I learned from Uncle Roger. :)
“As an ordinary person who gets a lot of money by posting some cooking videos, he should at least not be disrespectful to this country and the people who sacrificed for this country.”
So, uh, someone unordinary, who doesn't get a lot of money by posting some cooking videos, can?
The subtext here is that YouTube is banned in China, so someone like Wang Gong using it very likely means it is a ministry of information cultural export program of some kind to begin with.
A Chinese celebrity chef has apologised after he was accused of insulting the memory of Mao Zedong’s son by posting a video about how to cook egg fried rice.
“As a chef, I will never make fried rice again,” Wang said in his apology on Monday after taking down the video.
Mao Anying, a Chinese military officer, was killed by US bombers on 25 November 1950 during the Korean war.
A persistent but frequently denied rumour says he was trying to cook egg fried rice instead of taking shelter, and the smoke from the fire exposed his position to enemy forces.
The Chinese Academy of History has said the claim about Mao Anying is a “most vicious rumour”, but the story remains popular.
The rumour – and references to egg fried rice – are now a taboo topic in China’s highly sensitive and controlled political environment.
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How have the Chinese not played the reverse card and intentionally celebrated cooking fried rice as a sign of bravery in the face of an adversary here?
I'm pedantic enough to start a trend on tiktok of bad Chinese fried rice cooking, like "how bad can you make it while still be considered Chinese fried rice"
I spilled egg fried rice all over myself watching US bombers drop their load in Korea & a GI shouted 'this nigga eating egg fried rice' & everyone laughed and killed me
because he did it again? Have you read the article, yes?
This year’s gaffe was Wang’s third offence. He released similar videos around the time of the anniversary of Mao Anying’s death in 2018 and 2020, both times prompting an outcry on social media.
Just ignore the fact that social credit score will go down and disappearances will occur if you don't loudly do this shit to prove that you are a good, loyal citizen.
China has plenty of earnest nationalists who are as stupid and easily roused by nonsense as nationalists here in the US. The party doesn't need to stoke this. Also, that's not how social credit or disappearances work.
Nah, the state itself doesn't care about this. This is human beings looking for people to outgroup and then force the state into action. I'm not implying that the state isn't captured by crazed jingonists that border on fascism. I just think it's important to understand just how much popular outrage is what drives what the Chinese state does.