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[–] RedWizard@hexbear.net 13 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (4 children)

The Han Chinese one is something I wasn't even aware of but have had people mention to me previously. Where does that come from, exactly? Also, the "social credit score" one tickles a brainworms still, I know it's likely nothing like how it was described to me in the past, but I don't even know what the reality behind that one is.

[–] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 17 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Social credit scores, in so far as they aren't just a fabrication, are a way of policing businesses to keep them from doing anti-social practices. Private citizens don't have any kind of "state loyalty score," just a normal criminal record (or lack of one, of course)

[–] RedWizard@hexbear.net 12 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Got it, and considering every American believes themselves to be some temporarily embarrassed millionaire, they extrapolate that to mean ME, they want ME to have a social credit score!

[–] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 10 points 11 months ago

It's not even that, they have no idea about it being for businesses. They just imagine the 1984 stasi assigning every individual citizen a numeric value that represents how the government judges them and then rewarding or penalizing them accordingly. It's seriously just a myth that people believe because "some guy said so" is all they need to believe something bad about China.

[–] RedDawn@hexbear.net 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Funny, I was just denied housing today due to my social credit score being too low. I live in America by the way

[–] RedWizard@hexbear.net 6 points 11 months ago

I'm sorry to hear that, Patriot. Please approach the pew and give Ronald Reagan nine Hail Marys and eleven Pledges of Allegiance.

[–] vger@lemmy.ml 9 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I don’t think Han supremacy/replacement theory has a singular origin. I think it comes from a confluence of:

  • Chinese state imperialism theory
  • Recycling of white supremacist great replacement theory
  • Projection of white supremacy itself
  • Rolling up Tibet/Uyghur/Hong Kong into one big undifferentiated ball of Han/CPC oppression


In fact quite the opposite has been happening thanks to China's affirmative action policies