• pingveno@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      But is it sinophobia? It’s no secret that Xi Jinping and the party like to have companies firmly under their thumb. All you have to do is threaten a few execs. Or hell, a good chunk of companies have deference to the party baked into their charter.

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      1 year ago

      Eh I disagree about the Sinophobia thing, they’re not expressing fear or dislike of Chinese people, they’re criticizing the chinese government.

      Criticizing an authoritarian government =/= racism. People =/= their government.

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        In comments I’ve seen, the person you’re responding to has always resisted that distinction when it comes to China, though decidedly less so when wishing collapse upon the US. Speaking of the US, apparently our use of color for advertising is literally worse than the Holocaust!

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      You know that you could have written a comment that doesn’t make you look like a terminally online fucking loser?

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      1 year ago

      ++1 TikTok is only political because Americans want to own everyone’s data exclusively.