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Chinese TV gala sparks racism controversy after featuring dancers in blackface to celebrate Lunar New Year
UK Daily Mail ^ | February 12, 2021 | Emilia Jiang

Posted on 02/12/2021 4:28:32 AM PST by C19fan

China's biggest Lunar New Year TV show has been accused by viewers of racism for including performers in blackface to look African.

During a performance titled 'African Song and Dance', Chinese dancers appeared on stage wearing outfits that approximated African clothing and had darkened their skin with make-up.

The four-hour annual gala, one of the world's most-watched TV programme, was aired on Thursday by state broadcaster CCTV and is said to have attracted more than 1.1 billion viewers.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: History; Society
KEYWORDS: china; race; woke
As if the Han Chinese will give a rat's ass what Woke Westerners think.
1 posted on 02/12/2021 4:28:32 AM PST by C19fan
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To: C19fan

Why would anyone watch any TV show from China? The whole world is being brain washed and they are too dumb to know it.


2 posted on 02/12/2021 4:34:33 AM PST by Russ (I )
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To: C19fan

It’s not a conundrum. Liberals have forgotten about the genocide in Tibet because they think its racist to blame the Chicoms for anything.


3 posted on 02/12/2021 4:36:46 AM PST by Telepathic Intruder
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During a performance titled 'African Song and Dance'

....were they expected to dress up as Inuit? FFS!

4 posted on 02/12/2021 4:44:00 AM PST by Moltke (Reasoning with a liberal is like watering a rock in the hope to grow a building.)
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To: C19fan

Hey LeBron, eat it!


5 posted on 02/12/2021 4:48:04 AM PST by HighSierra5
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*** As if the Han Chinese will give a rat’s ass what Woke Westerners think. ***

That was my exact thought.


6 posted on 02/12/2021 4:49:12 AM PST by sockmonkey (Conservative. Not a Neocon.)
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“As if the Han Chinese will give a rat’s ass what Woke Westerners think.”

Bingo.


7 posted on 02/12/2021 5:04:37 AM PST by BBQToadRibs2
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“As if the Han Chinese will give a rat’s ass what Woke Westerners think.”

Chinese response to those tweeting away: “So, what are you going to do about? We’re already building blue-water navy vessels at 5 times the rate of you Americans. Checkmate.”


8 posted on 02/12/2021 5:10:08 AM PST by BobL (TheDonald.win is now Patriots.win)
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"As if the Han Chinese will give a rat's ass what Woke Westerners think."

Woke... I think it's all about social madness... I really believe this nation will end up looking a lot like that old experiment with rats in a maze.. Soon, we start killing one another...

Check this out....

https://blog.libraryofsocialscience.com/social-madness-collective-delusion/

9 posted on 02/12/2021 5:18:00 AM PST by unread (A REPUBLIC..! If you can keep it....)
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To: C19fan
"As if the Han Chinese will give a rat's ass what Woke Westerners think."

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10 posted on 02/12/2021 5:18:15 AM PST by Joe 6-pack
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To: C19fan

there are Chinese Woke as well...


11 posted on 02/12/2021 5:24:39 AM PST by Cronos
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To: C19fan

I’ve been hearing “woke” for the past year. Never understood what it meant.
I guess it means “black”.


12 posted on 02/12/2021 5:34:55 AM PST by BuffaloJack (Neither safety nor security exists in nature. Everything is dangerous and has risk.)
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From the very beginning, the whole blackface controversy was a manufactured one. It was the typical hawk up up a loogie in your face and tell you it’s raining maneuver by the Amish. They were testing the waters to see how far they could get with their passive aggressive con.

We’ve graduated from that to persecuting cops for keeping violent black drug felons prone to prevent them from choking on their own puke while overdosing. Blacks are now an aristocratic race subject to a more lenient set of laws, as befitting their lofty legal status in American society. In time, expect reparations payments to be an annual line item on tax returns. It’s not enough that we fund their dysfunction obliquely through race quota set-asides, the welfare state and revolving door justice. Our groveling submission must be made explicit not just through place name changes and statuary removals - it must be stamped on every official document, including our tax forms.

In time, expect murder rates to plunge as killings by blacks are redefined as exercises of the American version of samurai privilege, extended to the entire black community. This was basically the right a samurai had to hack up (including to death), on the spot anyone who displayed insufficient respect for his elevated status in society. Several unfortunate English aristocrats fell victim to this custom during the Victorian era. We have turned into a bizarro version of feudal-era Japan, with incidents like the following becoming routine occurrences, and blacks in the the role of the samurai.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Namamugi_Incident


13 posted on 02/12/2021 5:47:09 AM PST by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room.)
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Uh-oh.

Now they have really stepped in it. Race is a sacred cow on the world stage.

Will the Commies "apologize" for insensitivity towards Blacks and kneel before BLM Inc. like the rest of the developed world?

It will be interesting to see how this one plays out.

My prediction: Heads will roll. Someone (the organizer of the gala, perhaps) will be punished for "embarrassing" the Party, and the Communists will try to smooth things over by pouring more money into African countries.

14 posted on 02/12/2021 6:26:00 AM PST by Jess Kitting
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To: unread

Thanks for the link. Good stuff.


15 posted on 02/12/2021 6:31:41 AM PST by Irenic
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I’m glad they’re getting criticized. But that’s as far as it will go. They’re CHICOMS, after all, and the left worships them.


16 posted on 02/12/2021 6:37:30 AM PST by I want the USA back (The nation is in the grips of hysterical insanity, as usual.)
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“During a performance titled ‘African Song and Dance’”

Cultural Appropriation! Cultural Appropriation!


17 posted on 02/12/2021 6:37:56 AM PST by Zack Attack
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It’s pretty hilarious, actually. And the CCP couldn’t give less of a rat’s rectum what the woke pearl-clutchers think about it.


18 posted on 02/12/2021 7:09:55 AM PST by SharpenedEdge (Stockpile. Prepare. Arm. Train. A Storm is coming.)
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To: BuffaloJack

The modern meaning of “woke” is to be indoctrinated into neo-Marxist thinking. It’s kind of Orwellian like “war is peace, freedom is slavery.” To be “woke” is to be brainlessly following crazy left-wing indoctrination without question or independent thought, in other words to be mentally asleep.


19 posted on 02/12/2021 7:17:08 AM PST by FenwickBabbitt
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To: Jess Kitting

[My prediction: Heads will roll. Someone (the organizer of the gala, perhaps) will be punished for “embarrassing” the Party, and the Communists will try to smooth things over by pouring more money into African countries. ]


You must think China is Japan. Its name for itself essentially defines the empire as the center of the world. Quora, as usual, is being politically correct about it, but China views itself as the only only civilization that matters, much as Rome, Persia, Britain, etc did.

https://www.quora.com/Do-the-Chinese-characters-for-China-signify-its-status-as-the-middle-kingdom-or-center-of-the-world

This kind of hauteur isn’t unique to China, but it is the biggest challenge facing the Free World today. Like other aggressive civilizations, it views the world through the prizm of its ambition - terra cognita is separated into two categories - current and future provinces.

The topic of the headline might basically be small change, but it’s a foot in the door, and a slippery slope towards a policy slant favoring future concessions to grifters in the black community. My guess is that they will blow right past this yellow light. If they’re not gonna give way over the pandemic virus they engineered in a lab, they certainly won’t, over this attempt at getting over, via this chink in their armor, by the heirs (BLM) to Jesse Jackson’s lucrative shakedown racket (Operation PUSH).


20 posted on 02/12/2021 7:27:06 AM PST by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room.)
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