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  • citsuahtoThoughts on ...?on Three Body Problem?
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    9 months ago

    I’ve read about half the book and watched the first episode. From my recollection of the book, the tv show actually is fairly true to it. The book doesn’t really shy away from being pretty critical of the CR, at least in the English translation. I think it’s not too much of an exaggeration of historical fact, it was a fairly bleak time in history. I don’t think many Chinese communists would argue that no mistakes were made at the time.







  • Theres no political will to implement any change that will materially benefit Indigenous people. Liberal politics at its core, this proposal was almost entirely symbolic. Now arguably that is still important, which is part of the reason I still voted yes. But I don’t think this is necessarily such a great loss for progressive politics. As time has gone on I have much more sympathy for progressive No arguments of Lidia Thorpe and co. You can believe that we have this result because 70% of the Australian electorate are racist deplorables beyond salvation but I think that’s not a useful learning from this outcome and it doesn’t help progressive politics at all going forward to operate with that assumption.




  • citsuahOPtoWorld NewsAustralians vote no to Indigenous Voice to Parliament.
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    1 year ago

    Did you read the article? I don’t think its the correct conclusion to draw that people voted no because of racism. At the start of the year there was around 70% in favour of the voice on polls. The author makes the point, people haven’t suddenly become racist in this time. Certainly a proportion of people voted no because they’re racist but its not the whole story. Outer suburban areas in major cities which are poor and very multicultural all voted no quite resoundingly, while inner city liberal areas were the only areas that voted yes.