Yeah, xhs does have some problems when it comes to casual bigotry and unchallenged reactionary biases. I actually hope that the leftist stuff on American social media like being against casual colorism and fatphobia bleeds over.

Edit: removed “cultural left” and the quotes because that implies that the issues of fatphobia and colorism don’t materially harm people, which they do on a daily basis. I shouldn’t have trivialized the issues like that.

Edit 2: I don’t want to imply that Chinese social media is uniquely bad about any of those issues, transphobia/colorism/fatphobia are rampant on Western social media and also I tend to find that Chinese social media is a lot… nicer? Like people generally won’t go onto a post just to post something transphobic like they might on Instagram, and you don’t have open fascists running around propagandizing.

[–] quarrk@hexbear.net 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Makes me wonder if in fact China is prepared for this level of cultural intrusion by Western audiences. So much of the focus has been on how China is allegedly trying to propagandize the West, yet Westerners are very much invading a Chinese space — and are being welcomed, but still.

[–] khizuo@hexbear.net 14 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I think it will be fine, I highly doubt Chinese posters will just roll over and let Westerners take over the app and completely change it. Things are pretty hectic rn but I’ll wait to see how things settle down.