This is exactly the doublethink that George Orwell was warning of in Nineteen Eighty-Four [1]. When you accept that an ideology (Communism) is perfect, then any contradiction found must be in your mind and not in the ideology itself.
What's really concerning is how easily this has infected Western democracies too. In the UK I am reminded of the Parkfield School Muslim-LGBT disagreement, where people knew there was a problem, they were just unable to formulate what it was [2]. An even better example was the 'Islam is right about women' poster - everybody agreed it was a 'hate crime', but nobody was able to explain why [3].
I was just thinking about the Democratic party that left me behind with no one to vote for because they turned so violently left that no one thinks anything else is the right path. It's an ideology that the world can be a perfect place without murder or crime and that's not obtainable at all.
Chinese HN readers, who would you guess comprises these online commenters denigrating their athletes? Are they everyday people? Educated and polite sorts? The Chinese equivalent of a bogan?
Ben Simmons withdrawing from the Australian basketball team after an apparent mental breakdown in the NBA post-season wasn't well received by many Australian basketball fans. Some of the forum posts have been a bit ridiculous, so I'm wondering about the sorts of people getting caught up in the reactions in that case, and the Chinese example.
I would bet a lot more than 50c that the CCP isn't involved in a state-sponsored campaign to berate their own athletes, undermine social cohesion and tip the scales more in the favour of a cultural revolution 2.0.
So you don't think that a country that allows many of it's citizens to constantly die in brutal infrastructure accidents would start a propaganda campaign stating that they're most patriotic are not patriotic enough?
> Given the competitive nature of the Olympics, people getting upset over any losses is, of course, hardly unique to China.
Gotta take this article with a big grain of salt. As the article mentioned, it's hardly unique to China. To use the most extreme and tragic example, a Colombian was killed after scoring an own goal [1] in the 1994 World Cup. A big purpose of these national competitions seems to be giving nationalists a symbolic, nonviolent way to compete with other nations. Especially when 2 countries have a history of actual warfare.
But nationalist fervor has very clearly been stoked by the Chinese government in recent years, and they appear to be on a deliberate collision course.
I this case, I suspect the Chinese government let the trolls loose online to stoke nationalist feeling, and then officially reign them in, to appear reasonable.
It seems to be a new cold war, and both sides are propagandizing their populations, though China appear to me to be more blatant about it.
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What's really concerning is how easily this has infected Western democracies too. In the UK I am reminded of the Parkfield School Muslim-LGBT disagreement, where people knew there was a problem, they were just unable to formulate what it was [2]. An even better example was the 'Islam is right about women' poster - everybody agreed it was a 'hate crime', but nobody was able to explain why [3].
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doublethink
[2] https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/8635881/school-stops-lgbt-teac...
[3] https://www.spiked-online.com/2019/09/26/the-genius-of-the-i...
Taiwanese does not "disagree". They are a clear other separated country.
they are people from the west
Ben Simmons withdrawing from the Australian basketball team after an apparent mental breakdown in the NBA post-season wasn't well received by many Australian basketball fans. Some of the forum posts have been a bit ridiculous, so I'm wondering about the sorts of people getting caught up in the reactions in that case, and the Chinese example.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/50_Cent_Party
[2] https://www.voanews.com/east-asia-pacific/who-are-chinese-tr...
Gotta take this article with a big grain of salt. As the article mentioned, it's hardly unique to China. To use the most extreme and tragic example, a Colombian was killed after scoring an own goal [1] in the 1994 World Cup. A big purpose of these national competitions seems to be giving nationalists a symbolic, nonviolent way to compete with other nations. Especially when 2 countries have a history of actual warfare.
[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9s_Escobar
this anti-china propaganda has to stop, brainwashing your people is counter productive
then you end up with anti-vax people and as a result fail to control a pandemic, in a 1st world country lol
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On the one hand, the BBC is hardly impartial.
But nationalist fervor has very clearly been stoked by the Chinese government in recent years, and they appear to be on a deliberate collision course.
I this case, I suspect the Chinese government let the trolls loose online to stoke nationalist feeling, and then officially reign them in, to appear reasonable.
It seems to be a new cold war, and both sides are propagandizing their populations, though China appear to me to be more blatant about it.