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Is Lemmy.World racist towards China? (hexbear.net)
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[–] 13 points 2 years ago* (7 children)

The Han Chinese one is something I wasn't even aware of but have had people mention to me previously. Where does that come from, exactly? Also, the "social credit score" one tickles a brainworms still, I know it's likely nothing like how it was described to me in the past, but I don't even know what the reality behind that one is.

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  • [–] 17 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Social credit scores, in so far as they aren't just a fabrication, are a way of policing businesses to keep them from doing anti-social practices. Private citizens don't have any kind of "state loyalty score," just a normal criminal record (or lack of one, of course)

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Got it, and considering every American believes themselves to be some temporarily embarrassed millionaire, they extrapolate that to mean ME, they want ME to have a social credit score!

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago

    It's not even that, they have no idea about it being for businesses. They just imagine the 1984 stasi assigning every individual citizen a numeric value that represents how the government judges them and then rewarding or penalizing them accordingly. It's seriously just a myth that people believe because "some guy said so" is all they need to believe something bad about China.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    I don’t think Han supremacy/replacement theory has a singular origin. I think it comes from a confluence of:

    • Chinese state imperialism theory
    • Recycling of white supremacist great replacement theory
    • Projection of white supremacy itself
    • Rolling up Tibet/Uyghur/Hong Kong into one big undifferentiated ball of Han/CPC oppression


    In fact quite the opposite has been happening thanks to China's affirmative action policies

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