My very first comment on lemmy was on this community and i used the acronym CCP, instead of CPC and you kind of harassed me for that. I’m glad you are more polite this time, but let me tell you: people usually do their first research about china on wikipedia and over there for some odd reason the acronym CCP is used as default. So it’s true people who use it are usually not very knowledgeable about china, but i don’t think it’s always wise to ignore them, specially if they are they are being respectful. If they are being a dick, i am on your side.
Always wise? No. The correct response 99.44% of the time you see “CCP” being used? Absolutely. And I’m willing to sacrifice the 0.56% CCP-users who aren’t raging ignoramuses to avoid reading the same old tired, inaccurate, biased talking points of the 99.44%.
How do you suppose a western average person who wants to learn about the chinese government goes about doing that? I think the odds are they are going to learn the CCP acronym first as it’s being used everywhere in the western media (even though it’s incorrect). So you’re just going to be rude with every single one of those people calling them “ignoramuses” who can safely be ignored? Learn some respect.
The day the average western person is actually interested in learning about things instead of labeling them with their preconceptions and projections is the day I’ll stop thinking of them as ignoramuses.
Those who are interested in learning are almost by definition not average. And they tend to learn just fine … without even getting butthurt at a correction to the point they go on and on about it interminably for months after getting corrected.
Oh, incidentally, the first sentence on Wikipedia reads:
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP),[5] officially the Communist Party of China (CPC),[6] is the founding and sole ruling party of the People’s Republic of China (PRC).[7][8]
(Emphasis is mine, not in original text.)
The fact that a bunch of outsiders thinks their version is the right one and the actual party itself doesn’t know its own name just tells me that said outsiders can be safely discarded as having any opinions of value or note.
No need to be sarcastic here. I told you I have been to that page, so I know what’s written on it. No. I don’t agree with that attitude. That’s why I learned to avoid wikipedia as a source for chinese politics.
My very first comment on lemmy was on this community and i used the acronym CCP, instead of CPC and you kind of harassed me for that. I’m glad you are more polite this time, but let me tell you: people usually do their first research about china on wikipedia and over there for some odd reason the acronym CCP is used as default. So it’s true people who use it are usually not very knowledgeable about china, but i don’t think it’s always wise to ignore them, specially if they are they are being respectful. If they are being a dick, i am on your side.
Always wise? No. The correct response 99.44% of the time you see “CCP” being used? Absolutely. And I’m willing to sacrifice the 0.56% CCP-users who aren’t raging ignoramuses to avoid reading the same old tired, inaccurate, biased talking points of the 99.44%.
How do you suppose a western average person who wants to learn about the chinese government goes about doing that? I think the odds are they are going to learn the CCP acronym first as it’s being used everywhere in the western media (even though it’s incorrect). So you’re just going to be rude with every single one of those people calling them “ignoramuses” who can safely be ignored? Learn some respect.
The day the average western person is actually interested in learning about things instead of labeling them with their preconceptions and projections is the day I’ll stop thinking of them as ignoramuses.
Those who are interested in learning are almost by definition not average. And they tend to learn just fine … without even getting butthurt at a correction to the point they go on and on about it interminably for months after getting corrected.
Go to the website of the authority to learn about the authority, not some chauvinist pretend-experts.
When people correct your mistakes, you should learn from that and correct yourself in the future instead of screeching about being harassed.
Oh, incidentally, the first sentence on Wikipedia reads:
(Emphasis is mine, not in original text.)
The fact that a bunch of outsiders thinks their version is the right one and the actual party itself doesn’t know its own name just tells me that said outsiders can be safely discarded as having any opinions of value or note.
No need to be sarcastic here. I told you I have been to that page, so I know what’s written on it. No. I don’t agree with that attitude. That’s why I learned to avoid wikipedia as a source for chinese politics.