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Like what's with the aversion to nuclear power? Combination of 白左 and also the fossil fuel lobby.

The aversion to nuclear power here in europe is mostly the cultural scars that chernobyl had on Europe along with various different instances of massive polluting by major companies and nobody believing any for-profit company could be trustworthy enough to manage it safely.

It can't be understated how significant Chernobyl was on european mindsets about nuclear power. That shit legitimately did nearly destroy europe and people's attitudes to nuclear power were very heavily affected by it. Those attitudes then passed on.

Another small part of me thinks that anti-nuclear power movements were also tied together with anti-nuclear movements and that such movements possibly once believed that opposing nuclear power helped prevent nuclear weapon proliferation because they wouldn't have the materials to be enriched for weapons. But this thought is not really based on anything I've read, I think it's something that might have been discussed by orgs privately at the time though.

I feel like XHS comment sections are like 2 steps away from calling Shanghai 白左.

Isn't this the general sentiment there already? I thought they already thought of Shanghai as honorary westerners, or trying way too hard to be westerners.

It's right wing term used by a rightoid minority as far as I can tell

What the fuck, why is it being used as an insult on Hexbear

The bai in baizuo is also from baichi, which means idiot. So, baizuo doesn't just mean white left but also idiotic left. A more fitting translation of baizuo would be white leftoid or white left*rd.

That’s not how Chinese language works. Just because 白 (bái) can be part of a word that means “idiot” doesn’t mean that it is infused with the meaning of idiocy. That’s like saying “the bai in baizuo is also from mingbai, which means clear/reasonable so baizuo doesn’t just mean white left but also reasonable left”. Which is obviously absurd lol. In most contexts, 白 means “white” and nothing else, although there are obviously many cultural associations with the colour white that are layered on top of that.

auntology? ain't that what mark fisher was always on about?

Auntology as a handle is really funny though, if it's a pun on hauntology

Facts. It never is used to call someone a hypocrite, it's always used as a new way to call any white person that doesn't immediately fall in line a race traitor.

I mean, honestly, would probably be good for us to get a taste of our own medicine for a change.

Western leftism isn't leftism, it's the thing that killed it.

Oh, would you shut up? Did you forget the Marxism that came with Marxism-Leninism? (Admittedly, Marx and Engels would've had some western brainworms to deal with; I understand if yer referring to modern-day leftists who align with western foreign policy)

Oh and speaking of

Global South need some way of making fun of people from far right countries larping as socialists.

Apparently, it comes from one of those damned Chinese reactionaries that China should've cracked down more upon

Communication researcher Fang Kecheng believes that the term first appeared in an article published by a Renren user, right-wing libertarian and market fundamentalist named "Li Shuo" titled "The Pseudo-morality of Western White Leftists and Chinese Patriotic Scientists", criticizing Western leftists who sympathize with Communist China (citing Chomsky and Yang Zaohanchun ), mainly referring to the left wing in economic and political thought [ 5 ] [ 7 ] [ a ] .

After evolution and conceptual transformation, the term "left" now only refers to the left and right on social issues, and has nothing to do with the left and right in economic thought. During the 2016 US presidential election , "white leftists" began to be widely used by Chinese netizens [ 8 ] .

This is like the evolution of the Terry Davis term, used to refer to feds, starting with 'glow' (Ctrl + 4), the term just broadened away but never yet quite fell so far

I'll tell you this, the last time someone used that sort of language regularly, in lemmygrad.ml, they were banned @JoeDaRedTrooperYT@lemmygrad.ml

Yes, but that's clearly not the only use of the term.