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In case your source for that is serpentza, then you should check this reply with more links debunking this guy and his racist views.
Obviously China is not a utopia and with a billion people things will be bad at some place or another. But cherry picked examples and wild accusations like "they will dissappear" is just anti-China propaganda.
I went to Shanghai last year and there were, in fact, homeless people around. Not many at all, but I was surprised to see any.
I got a weird vibe with serpentza.
One one hand, yes he does tell the truth about China sometimes. But he also have this weird vibe like putting "My Chinese Wife" in youtube titles (like imagine a white guy in America putting "My Black Wife" in the youtube title) or even a video title designed to clickbait people like "Are Chinese Men Cowards" which its just like WTF is that title, he did answer "No" in the video, but this guy clearly doesn't care about Political Correctness (aka: Politeness).
But he literally made a video recently proclaiming the USA is "the best" country in the world. Not "one of the best", he said "the best". The Video was made after trump won the election for the second time.
You can't take this guy seriously.
The homeless thing is real tho. They exist. But my point is: serpenza is a joke.
Edit: This is the video where serpentza said the "America is Best" thing: https://youtu.be/1hePvgiYyhU?t=1029 (Starts at 17:09)
"America is the best country I've ever lived in" Which is because he have lived in 3 countries, South Africa, PRC, USA, of course the US seems the best, because he haven't lived (as in long-tern) in EU countries, but then he doubled down in the next sentence:
"America is the best country in the world" LOL nope. Dude forgot the EU Exists. 🤣
Video was published in December 30, 2024, like... bruh... forgot the LGBT people? Minorities? Immigrants? 🤔 This is white privilage in action. Maybe he isn't malicious, but this is peak ignorance and being totally out of touch, even if he has good intents.
Serpentza is compelling and interesting on a cursory glance. And I don't know if he is consciously racist or how far his biases go. The bigger problem is that there are "algorithmic forces" shaping content and content creators.
The content creators wants to make money, needs to make money. They will experiment with various things. They make compelling content, don't have time to deeply study history or sociology or economics, only enough to project an image. Psychological needs from narcissism might make them unable to resist rationalizations in exchanges for clicks.
There have been quite a few cases with supposedly liberal or leftist icons suddenly turning to reactionary rhetoric. It's hard to understand and somewhat traumatizing. Recently TYT. I think the moral of the story is that much of it is subconsciously performative and not well thought out beliefs. And economic reality makes ideology a lie.
I think Serpentza fits in there somewhere, if he's not outright paid indirectly by the state department to spread propaganda.
I think he realized the US's turn towards fascism and amp up the right-wing rhetoic to secure his adjustment of status. AFIAK, he is still a citizen of South Africa, and I'm not even sure if he has permanent residency in the US, or just some visa. I think he's bootlicking to make sure he doesn't get deported to South Africa.
And he's a cishet white man, so this spiral into fascism doesn't affect him, which is why he's too blind to see the shit that's been happening.
And its also the fact that he criticized South Africa and China too much, he just has to keep his mouth shut about the US to stay out of trouble, kinda similar to how Snowden went against the US, and now he is in a situation where he can't criticize the Russian government.
I don't know who that is.
I read news articles.
The news articles I read said they offer homeless people housing for work, if they refuse they are "reeducated" which is one of the many ways people dissapear in the China meat grinder.