China's "socialism w Chinese characteristics" is heavily nationalist & even racialist, in contrast to the internationalist & anti-racist bent of Western leftism. They have a clear (though somewhat flexible for political expediency) understanding of who is and isn't Chinese
THREAD ON CHINA AND GLOB0HOM0
The conventional understanding of right & left, liberal & conservative, breaks down when applied to China
China, while ostensibly communist, differs from other communist countries and from Western leftist ideology in several important ways.
China's "socialism w Chinese characteristics" is heavily nationalist & even racialist, in contrast to the internationalist & anti-racist bent of Western leftism. They have a clear (though somewhat flexible for political expediency) understanding of who is and isn't Chinese
Everyone else a foreigner
China is fiercely protectionist
Their banning of Western social media served 2 purposes: 1) keep glowy foreign subversion out of their cyberspace, and 2) create domestic alternatives such as Weibo and WeChat for greater economic benefit to themselves
This is a huge advantage for them
So there are are "American" brands on Chinese shelves, products from the transnational megacorps, just nothing actually MADE IN AMERICA
China is in many ways much more culturally conservative than US or Europe at present
China does not have g*y marriage and does not allow representations of hom0s*xuality in film & tv
They recently made divorce more difficult in order to stem rising divorce rates
Government policies are typically designed around fostering and continuing this societal ethos
Consequently:
1. Elements of the Right in the West admire or try to find common cause w China
2. Anti-CCP forces in Taiwan, Hong Kong, S. Korea & elsewhere become PRO-glob0hom0 as a reaction, looking to Western liberalism as a model
This alone should give all on the American Right serious pause regarding "based Chyna"
China can be considered both, in different ways, which creates a strange, triangular scenario
They "took our jobs" - because our politicians made it profitable for corporations to ship them there
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MISREPRESENTED CONTEXT
1. I am indeed disgusted with attempts to misrepresent and take out of context what I wrote on my blog yesterday.
2. Those who did that highlighted only one part of paragraph 12 which read: “Muslims have a right to be angry and to kill millions of French people for the massacres of the past.”
3. They stopped there and implied that I am promoting the massacre of the French.
4.If they had read d posting in its entirety & especially the subsequent sentence which read: “But by & large the Muslims hv not applied the “eye for an eye” law. Muslims don’t. The French shouldn’t. Instead the French should teach their people to respect other people’s feelings
5. Because of the spin and out of context presentation by those that picked up my posting, reports were made against me and I am accused of promoting violence etc… on Facebook and Twitter.
1. I am indeed disgusted with attempts to misrepresent and take out of context what I wrote on my blog yesterday.
RESPECT OTHERS
— Dr Mahathir Mohamad (@chedetofficial) October 29, 2020
1. A teacher in France had his throat slit by an 18-year-old Chechen boy. The killer was angered by the teacher showing a caricature of Prophet Muhammad. The teacher intended to demonstrate freedom of expression.
2. Those who did that highlighted only one part of paragraph 12 which read: “Muslims have a right to be angry and to kill millions of French people for the massacres of the past.”
3. They stopped there and implied that I am promoting the massacre of the French.
4.If they had read d posting in its entirety & especially the subsequent sentence which read: “But by & large the Muslims hv not applied the “eye for an eye” law. Muslims don’t. The French shouldn’t. Instead the French should teach their people to respect other people’s feelings
5. Because of the spin and out of context presentation by those that picked up my posting, reports were made against me and I am accused of promoting violence etc… on Facebook and Twitter.
