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It's not my fucking country. Just like your country isn't my fucking country. I live in it. There's a decided difference.
And you know what? Given the choice between living in a country where the only response to more-than-daily mass shootings and regular school shootings is "thoughts and prayers" and a country that stops me from seeing some web sites outside of their borders unless I use technological trickery ...
... Well, the latter, while certainly not ideal, is MOTHERFUCKING ENDLESSLY BETTER, yes. (It's why I live here and not in the shithole you come from.) Thank you for asking.
Do you feel like the government represents you?
Have you ever tried to get politically involved? If so, what was your experience?
The government represents the government. This is true of any society. Only the strategy differs.
Personally I'm an anarchist (specifically an anarcho-syndicalist). I don't like any governments. I just think some are easier to live under than others. Plutocratic (direct or indirect) governments are among the worst to live under, however.
As a non-citizen, I'm not permitted to join the Party (nor would I really want to, to be fair) and thus I'm not able to get officially involved in politics. For the grassroots side, as a foreign guest I am more careful about what I get involved with because I could very easily be invited to exit. With great alacrity. This would disrupt the pseudo-family life I've built up for myself here and would harm people I genuinely care about.
When I was teaching (2001-2016) I did very carefully insert some material for students to think about into the curriculum. The duller of them would not have spotted it, but the sharper among them did and talked to me about it outside of class. I did not, however, participate in student protests (like the ones that had students knocking down over a kilometre of brick wall over SARS restrictions way back when), nor any other such disruptive activities as such. I worked with more finesse and subtlety than that.
I never said the US was better than China, but you sure seem determined to think that only one of them can be bad, so I don't see any point in continuing this.
No reponse, then, to my thorough dismantling of your claim that ghost stories and time travel stories are banned in China?
Didn't think so.
That would involve something an American is incapable of doing: confessing ignorance.
Is the "thorough dismantling" in the comment you deleted? How am I supposed to reply to something I can't read?
But sure, let's say you're right about that -- you replied to those examples and not my mentioning erotica being banned, so I presume I was right about that?
You know what, I just noticed you also cited "math is hard" as a "typical American" attitude, but if you're going to go this hard on defending Chinese censorship, I might as well point out that "math is hard", in the context of talking dolls, was thoroughly clowned on by literally everyone when it happened in... [checks] 1992.