As a Chinese person who loves the CPC–every fucking time I go onto baidu forums my feed gets clogged with a few interesting articles and all of this wonky shit.
Apparently if you express any opinions remotely pro-west, you get called a “bootlicker”, and of course there’s the classic “kneeling so long you no longer know how to stand” and that kind of super cringy shit. in addition, they seem to want Xi replaced with Chinese Hitler, as they genuinely think Chinese are the masterrace. There’s constantly shit about how black people are inferior, and one article even suggested a “final solution” for “dealing with the black problem”. They also seem to want the blood of white people & japanese, including several overenthusiastic posters who wanted to murder japanese women and children and feed their dead bodies to dogs.
Uh yeah totally sane just normal-ass patriotism, nothing to see here.
On the other end of the spectrum you have these guys who always criticize the government for no fucking reason. CCTV praises beauty of fields? They don’t understand the pain of the farmers. CCTV praise hard work? They don’t understand the pain of the workers. They seem to hold the belief that all government officials are evil and corrupt, city management exists to brutalize old people. They probably hold a higher view of the Gestapo than their own police. The source they’re probably getting this shit from? A TV show.
Yes, a fucking TV show. And not just any TV show but Kuang Biao, the Chinese Breaking Bad (in terms of cultural status, it’s not about meth). Yes, these people watch this show and apply it to reality. It’s kind of sad.
rant over.
Yeah a lot of shitty people popped out of no where in recent years, conspiracy theory, someone is funding right wingers in China to troll post online.
My guess would be exiled plutocrats that collaborate with the west probably are very active in undermining socialism. What could be more compromising to socialist internationalist solidarity, and advantageous to imperialism than fostering chuavanism in the PRC? And we know there are neolibs and nationalists in China that will incubate these sentiments.
I wonder if “internalized inferiority” from euro colonialism mixed with rapid success in industrialization might be a socially problematic combination in some instances and makes some people vulnerable to toxic nationalism. Especially when people are intentionally fanning the flames. It’s why the wisdom of the countryside has been prioritized for so long in China.
Sometimes I think I expect too much out of our comrades in the PRC and forget the struggles they face. We must double down on our own communities as we support our comrades abroad and their vital efforts to the struggle, or else we will never have the capacity for real solidarity.