Posted on 01/02/2023 11:07:48 AM PST by SeekAndFind
China is certainly one of the most totalitarian countries in the world, and such is what endears it to Western Leftists. Yet, even China hasn’t gone as extreme as American liberals have, and this could be a source of irritation to our radicals. Except they are too busy destroying America to care much what China is doing.
Still, in several ways, China is more “conservative” than the American left. I want to examine this interesting point.
But before I do that, let me mention a couple of matters where China is the idol of the American Left and why. This list could obviously be lengthened, but I will discuss only two points.
1. China’s one-party, totalitarian system. The Democrats would love to have a one-party state in America. There are no elections in China, except within the CCP, and the common people have no say in what political viewpoint rules their country. It’s Marxism/socialism/Xi-ism or nothing. Having no elections is easier than stealing them. There is also no ”separation of powers” in the Chinese system. The Democrats idolize that, too. They can’t get around it (yet) in America, but if they could pack the Supreme Court, and take over both houses of Congress and the Presidency, separation of powers would be meaningless. But it still exists. Oh, for the Chinese system, dreams the American Marxist!
2. The COVID-19 lockdowns. The CCP has recently eased these restrictions somewhat, which must have disappointed American liberals, but China could re-institute them (and might) at a moment’s notice. And that’s the key here. The lockdowns are not as important as the definition of “freedom.” In a totalitarian state, all power resides in the government. Thus, any “freedoms” the people have come from the government. Freedoms given can obviously be taken away. In the American system, of course, our freedoms come from God, and we have a constitution to protect us (theoretically) from government tyranny. The American Left hates that system passionately, and again, has wet dreams about instituting the Chinese system here. Only you and I are preventing them from doing that.
Ending the lockdowns will actually help the Chinese people, though their leadership doesn’t care about that. There has been an explosion of new Covid cases since the lockdown policy was relaxed, and this will enable people to develop a natural immunity to the virus, the strongest weapon against it, and something that should have happened long ago. The CCP’s future policy, however, will depend totally on how the government perceives its need to control the people, not on what is good for their health.
Let me now shift to some areas where the Chinese aren’t quite so orthodox to American Leftists.
1. There is no illegal immigration into China. I knew an American English teacher who long overstayed his visa in China. They finally caught him and threw his butt in jail for a month. Then they kicked him out of the country with a “don’t ever come back.” What a novel concept.
China protects its borders. They don’t want the riffraff of the world invading, diluting their culture, dividing the country into 1,000 splintered sects, and destroying the unity of the people and nation. China has limited “minority” problems and doesn’t want more. Not what American liberals think is best, obviously.
2. China cares nothing about “globalist” or “green” ideology. Oh, the CCP pays lip service to “globalism” and the “green” agenda, all while buying more oil and building more coal plants. Look at what they do, not at what they say. The only “globalism” China believes in is the entire globe serving them, and the only “green” they worship is the color of money (American capital investment) and their country’s military uniforms. The Chinese military is being trained to fight wars (another novel concept), unlike the utterly brainless American Leftist ideal of turning the armed forces into an experiment in social engineering and “equity.” We better not fight a war with China any time soon.
3. China thinks “woke” is a joke. A few months before I left China, I posted, on a Chinese social media platform, a picture which had a British Labour MP saying, “Some women are born with penises.” I received several hoots and hollers from Chinese people who thought that was hilarious. “Beyond stupidity,” was one totally accurate response. You see, the one thing the Chinese do NOT want is an infiltration of Western moral decadence. They see what it is doing to America, and thus Xi Jinping is very carefully managing the influx of that kind of garbage into his country. Divorce is going up some in China, and one will run across the occasional homosexual. But homosexuality is still frowned upon in most of China, and homosexuals are still in the closet. The nuclear family remains the most important institution to the Chinese people, and as long as it doesn’t threaten the government, the CCP will leave it alone. In fact, it better. The one thing that would almost certainly destroy Marxism in China is if the CCP tried to do there, to the family, what American liberals are doing to it in America. There is no mutilation of children or “transgender” movement in China waving its genitals in the faces of minors. Those people would disappear faster than “free Hong Kong” dissidents. To the Chinese, perversion is perversion, they understand what it is, and that it destroys the family, which they know is the foundation of civilized culture and society. They laugh at and mock American moral degeneration. Such will annihilate us, and they have sense enough to know it. It’s a shame we don’t.
China has a despicable, murderous, totalitarian government, with a lot of thieves, liars, and cheats. It’s why I left the place. But, in general, the Chinese are good people with a whole lot more common sense than what is being displayed by the American Left today. China is winning because America is playing with itself.
Communists really aren’t all that woke.
The Soviet Union wasn’t a good place for fags and trannies.
They are used as a ‘means to an end’. Then discarded.
Lol. Tell the North Koreans.
Nobody who is serious thinks ‘woke’ is a good idea. Remember when Brandon had the ‘TikTok influencer’ flounce though the WH to advocate getting the vax shot? Who is going to take FJB or the US seriously after that?
Even though she now sits on SCOTUS, how can anyone take Ketanji Brown Jackson seriously when she can’t answer the question “What is a woman?”
“Woke” is how people get when they take their freedom for granted. They think freedom is the right to have things their way at everyone else’s expense, and it’s the government’s job to enforce it.
Here’s the easy answer to the question:
An adult human with XX chromosomes.
NEXT!
the irony that the CCP communists, so admired by American communists, have no use for ‘diversity’ or other races or social justice, or even glo-bull warming hysteria / environmentalism for that matter.
the irony that the CCP communists, so admired by American communists, have no use for ‘diversity’ or other races or social justice, or even glo-bull warming hysteria / environmentalism for that matter.
The CCP aren’t big on LGBT rights because they don’t believe in human rights at all. Every rights advocacy group, whether it for the right of the unborn, the rights of muslims, or the rights of gays, are all basically in their eyes slaves trying to tell slave masters what they can’t do.
> China thinks “woke” is a joke.
They’ve had their own word for woke morons for quite some time.
Baizuo - A Chinese neologism used to refer to Western leftist ideologies primarily espoused by white people.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baizuo
The definition there is as soft on the woke as they can manage.
Here’s the one at Urban Dictionary:
Baizuo（白左，White Leftists）is a popular Mainland Chinese term coined for a specific subset of Westerners who are despised by most Chinese for their pretentiousness, hypocritical behavior and an overbearing sense of entitlement.
Baizuos are mostly characterized by their heavy use of political correctness and double standards to covertly advance their own material or emotional interests at the expense of others, while claiming otherwise from a self-assumed superior moral position. Some are truly non-malicious, but are too naive or lack the worldview to provide useful opinions or solutions to real societal problems.
Since most of these group is white （白）and left-(liberal) leaning（左）, and thus the name.
Chinese guy: “Oh look, those Baizuos over at America are blaming us for not accepting their trash after our recent foreign garbage import ban. Don’t these ****** ever understand they are responsible for cleaning their own **** instead of blame pushing all day long?
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Baizuo
“Woke” is a weapon of self destruction. China knows this. That is why they push “woke” onto the West.
Bkmk
An adult human with XX chromosomes.
Ahh yes. I heard this term before. According to Chinese political scientist Chenchen Zhang, the word “Baizuo” refers to those who “only care about topics such as immigration, minorities, LGBT rights and the environment”, but lack a concept of “real problems in the real world”.
It is also used to describe those “hypocritical humanitarians who advocate political correctness just to satisfy their own sense of moral superiority”.
China will let the west wallow in its own BaiZuo and eventually destroy itself.
Woke is for enemies, not comrades. Woke is for nations you want to destroy.
Someday the woke American jerks will be in the re-education and death camps next to the conservatives and patriots they disdained.
In his brilliant autobiography, Backstage Passes and Backstabbing Bastards, Al Kooper recalled an incident in NYC.
He was singer, musician and producer , he was the one who composed the organ music on the spot for Bob Dylan creating Like A Rolling Stone and others and played on Jimi Hendrix, BB King and George Harrison albums).
After marching in civil rights marches and giving at fundraising dinners for various causes, he found himself surrounded one night on the sidewalk by black males. After doing as he was told and not fighting, giving his money and watch and ring, they held him and beat him for a few minutes, hurting him badly. As he sank to the ground in pain he thought “Hey, you guys, I was on your side. I marched for your rights. Why are you doing this to me?”
ASSANINE ATUPID ARTICLE. CHI COME ARE AS LEFT AS THEY COME.
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