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Revisiting a classic in light of Starmer's recent Enoch Powell LARP/polling performance
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Australia's Trump party has the funniest logo. Look at the doofy lion tooting on a vuvuzela
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"doooot doooot I hate brown people and living in a stable ecosystem doooot"
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The current version of the site states that indigenous people make up 2.6 percent of registered households in Taiwan, while 1.2 percent were foreign nationals and 96.2 percent were “the rest of the population.”
A screenshot of the site archived on March 17 on the Wayback Machine shows that it previously said that Han Chinese accounted for the largest portion of the population at 96.4 percent.
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The removal of the term “Han Chinese” from the Executive Yuan’s Web site, which has sparked an online backlash, was intended to improve ethnic equality in Taiwan based on advice from the Control Yuan and was not politically motivated, Cabinet spokeswoman Michelle Lee (李慧芝) said on Sunday.
A user on the Professional Technology Temple (PTT) online bulletin board on Saturday wrote that on March 24 a section on the Executive Yuan’s Web site about ethnic groups in Taiwan removed the term “Han Chinese.”
The current version of the site states that indigenous people make up 2.6 percent of registered households in Taiwan, while 1.2 percent were foreign nationals and 96.2 percent were “the rest of the population.”
A screenshot of the site archived on March 17 on the Wayback Machine shows that it previously said that Han Chinese accounted for the largest portion of the population at 96.4 percent.
Soon after the PTT comments gained widespread media attention, the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) criticized the change as “cognitive warfare” against China by the ruling Democratic Progressive Party.
KMT Legislator Chen Ching-hui (陳菁徽) on Saturday called the change “absurd,” saying it recognized the ethnicity of minority groups comprising only 3.8 percent of the population, but referred to the 96 percent majority as simply “the rest.”
Such blurring of the nation’s ethnic composition is unhelpful and raises suspicions about the motive behind the change, she said.
Lee said the Department of Household Registration made the revision in response to a suggestion from Control Yuan member Antonio Hong (鴻義章) in December 2022, who said the previous description counterposed Han Chinese against indigenous people and new immigrants.
In the previous language on the site, the term “Han Chinese” encompassed Hoklo and Hakka people, as well as immigrants, Lee cited Hong as saying.
Such polarizing phrasing might hinder efforts to facilitate ethnic equality and eliminate racial discrimination, she cited Hong as saying, adding that he again proposed the revision in 2023.
The Executive Yuan updates the country profile on the Web site annually and uses terms related to ethnicity based on statutes such as the Household Registration Act (戶籍法), the Indigenous Peoples Status Act (原住民身分法) and the Immigration Act (入出國移民法), as well as demographic data, Lee said.
The term “more than 23 million people of Taiwan” refers to citizens of the Republic of China with a registered household, including foreign nationals, she said.
Indigenous people must register their ethnicity in accordance with the Indigenous Peoples Status Act and foreign nationals would be documented as a group based on their first-time household registration, she added.
However, the ethnic status of Hoklo or Hakka people, or minority groups such as Manchus, Mongolians or Tibetans, is not recorded and their numbers could not be calculated by category, Lee said.
As using “Han Chinese” as an umbrella term to encapsulate all these ethnic groups does not accurately reflect their ethnicity, it was replaced with “the rest of the population” to more objectively describe the demographic structure in Taiwan, she said.
The change was not politically motivated and should not be misinterpreted, Lee said.
Additional reporting by CNA
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[Andor S2 E1-9 spoilers] Liberals will bend over backwards to avoid understanding concepts contrary to liberalism
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Spoilers below
: https://www.reddit.com/r/andor/comments/1jwdgwg/is_andor_a_leftist_show/mmi1lui/
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I keep seeing leftists/progressives/Marxists/whatever praise this show while being unable to to engage in the ruthless, pragmatic sacrifices that Andor shows are necessary to fight fascism.
Part of the show is the importance of throwing people under the bus for the greater good. The first thing we ever see Cassian do is shoot a fellow Rebel. The people who see every compromise as a betrayal and every inability to respond to global crisis as a genocide would never be able to do this. They're willing to support the revolution when they picture themselves as Cassian but are they willing to picture themselves as Kreegyr?
Furthermore, all the people on "Team Luthen" seem deliberately designed to be "problematic." Maarva kidnapped an indigenous-coded kid, gave him new name, and assimilated him to her culture. Luthen sells the cultural artifacts from the victims of the Empire. Gorn and Kino are repentant fascists or fascist collaborators. Tay Kolma is a banker. Davo Sculdun is a mobster.
Saw Gerrera is so paralyzed by ideological purity that he just sits around in his cave, underfunded, not really accomplishing anything. Team Luthen, on the other hand, welcomes anyone who hates the Empire regardless of their ideologies or motivations so they actually get things done.
The ultimate theme of Andor is that if you want to fight fascism, don't expect to remain morally pure. Don't get picky about who you work with or where you get your money from. And don't expect to save everyone.
I won’t exaggerate the leftist content of Andor. It’s not an explicitly Marxist show. But there are many themes which line up excellently with Marxist themes and historical events; for example, the writer Tony Gilroy confirming that young Stalin inspired certain events and characters.
I’m excited to recommend this show to my non-leftist family to expose them to some less liberal thought with a focus on anti-imperialism. But some comments in the thread remind me how easily liberalism accommodates, and subordinates, other ways of thought into the liberal world view without being undermined.
The fact that revolution is messy doesn’t knock revolutionaries down to the same level as fascists. There can be no comparison between imperial violence and anti imperial violence, nor between privilege and oppression.
The loss of Kreegyr was a tragedy because it was predictable yet unavoidable, like a slow moving train wreck. It’s not because revolutionaries are inherently bloodthirsty and callous by nature. Luthen himself may be, but he is also correct in identifying the necessity of the action within the context of war.
Moreover Saw Guerrera was correct to refuse alliance with liberals and centrists. Mere ideological purity was not his concern. He said it himself: those organizations lacked “clarity of purpose.” They refused or were unable to formulate a theory of the struggle and were therefore unreliable, if not dangerous, as allies. History shows this to be the correct stance to take with respect to social democracy and left liberalism.
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