Fishroot

You kind of come off like transphobes who say “why are you Trans people crusading so hard?”

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Also you use ''their'' when you talk about Asian diaspora (as opposed to me being part of Asian Diaspora and have that conversation with my SEA friends) and your statement is very condescending. But thanks for 老外splaining to me, I'm still learning

Perhaps, but I'm neutral on how the white liberals agenda ''inclusion'' and its implication because ultimately I don't celebrate Chinese New Years with my corpo overlord or white people for the matter. With the people I actually celebrate, we have our own way to celebrate with my ingroups and I expect other ingroups to have their own way of interpreting the spirit of the CNY. If this is the crusade that the Asian diaspora wants to start, I don't want to be part of it.

As for the authentic CNY, its value and history, I don't have any attachment because my family is ultimately dysfunctional to the point that it is painful to be there to ''celebrate''

Tbh. Creating incentives for people to go to the countryside or other remote areas are not a so out there of a program.

Even western countries like Canada have programs to send people to more remote areas to connect them to the main economy ecosystem. The main challenge is that it sucks to live in the north of the country. Also, the farmlands are already mechanize to go back to a labour intensive way to do farming (therefore, there are no jobs for the formers and if they have to do the more labour intensive way, local people won’t do it because of the wage so it is outsourced to underpaid Mexican seasonal labourers). I think Wen Tiejun makes this argument when talking about land policies in the West.

I guess when the asians do it, it is evil.

It is also extra ironic because they also hates city “liberalism” where people are brainwashed by the evil ccp to be sheep. Also, cities are not sustainable because they steal ressources from the countryside (?).

Ofc the narrative is modular and it’s catered to paranoid suburban caucasian aspirational chinese.

Tbh the development countryside thing was pushed a lot by reactionary youtube chinese commentators to draw parallels with evil Mao down the countryside program

Balenciaga uses “edgy” advertising tactics made by edgy artists to keep being relevant

Tbh in China we’ve say “new years” because it is implied which one we are referring to (same in majority of asian countries). The other name used is “spring festival”.

The “chinese” new year is a way to differentiate the Gregorian one. “lunar” is to be more inclusive (probably the asian diasporas are not that much segregated in specific countries after a generation or two post-immigration)

It is not a fight where it is productive to take sides in it imo.

Skill issue voters

How are they not single issue voter? They just want to keep a demented ghoul in place regardless of his politics

When you are an austrian in Bürgerbräukeller, Munich in the 30s and the white liberal shows up

Canada is investigating UNRWA? They still haven’t manage to find concrete evidence of Chinese interference in their elections