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TikTok people moving to Xiaohongshu and learning that the Chinese aren't evil monsters is warming my heart. (hexbear.net)

submitted 11 hours ago by Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net to c/chat@hexbear.net

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Seriously who could have guessed? Sure it might not amount to much but even the fact that people are learning that what the US has been teaching it's people about China has been mostly lies is amazing.

There is no way in hell this could have ever happened even when I was a kid. People were simply too racist. They still are, but the fact that even the slight reduction in racism we have in modern day is enough that Chinese people and Westerners are coming together and being cool with each other online is nothing short of a miracle.

No wonder the US hegemony hates teaching it's people foreign languages, no wonder it encourages xenophobia, that barrier was so powerful in keeping people from learning first hand what Americas "enemies" are really like.

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[–] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 46 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

I dunno what feed you mean because most westerners think China is an authoritarian dictatorship. There are a lot of people that won't touch anything owned by Tencent simply because it's Chinese. Youtube is flooded by social credit score and Winnie the Pooh Xi jokes. Outside of the internet the mainstream News is constantly harping on the "China Threat" and how it's a threat to democracy. Those are just a handful of examples off the top of my head but even small stuff like all through my working life I've had co-workers used communism and Chinese as shorthand for bad. "Made in China" for example is shorthand for "badly made" when Westerners say it.

[–] Mardoniush@hexbear.net 35 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

The flood of Chinese treats banned from the US being seen might unironically be the radicalisation trigger for the US.

We've had Treaterites but are you ready for Treatist-Leninists?

[–] Evilsandwichman@hexbear.net 24 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

Treatist-Leninists?

Cultural Marxist = ❌️

Treatist Leninist = ✅️

[–] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 15 points 8 hours ago

The dialectic really is ever in motion cereal1