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[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

The original poster asked a question in good faith and I responded with a sourced claim

Where was this "sourced claim" before I jumped in and asked?

Do you think China is some utopian paradise with absolutely no problems whatsoever where they are still striving for improvement?

From my comment in another post (https://lemmygrad.ml/comment/3895578):

China is not a utopia, I’m glad that comrades here are defensive of China, but I suggest that we should avoid falling into the ideological warfare trap when it comes to discussing bad news in China. There’s no shame in admitting deficiencies where they are warranted, and of course feel free to refute baseless claims and misinformation.

As for your Tsinghua University link (https://www.tsjc.tsinghua.edu.cn/en/info/1148/1139.htm), the articles linked are all from 2013, I suppose the situation from 11 years ago is still valid today. But this isn't a problem because I'm sure you can find more recent sources for the poor situation regarding neurodivergent people in China. Also not to discriminate the author's background but:

Nicholas Compton, second year student of Global Business Journalism Program at our school. Before coming to Tsinghua University, he was a special education teacher in the U.S., specializing in autism education

No where did I say that China was a cutthroat capitalist society where neurodivergent people were losers.

No, I was mentioning what I thought after reading your two comments:

Socially and culturally, children and by extension adults with any form of special needs are seen as broken, weak, or sick. Job discrimination is rife, schools and colleges will discriminate heavily, and there are essentially no social services. Legal protections are nonexistent, or paltry at best, and rarely enforced.

and from the same cutthroat individualistic societal mindset that has allowed China to propel itself to absurd heights in such a short timeframe.