So I was browsing reddit out of boredom, and I saw a random post on the hoi4 subreddit and I clicked it without much thought. It was about Chinese players giving bad reviews to the game due to India getting cores for Tibet but not China. I clicked on it due to my masochistic desire to see if anyone else would recognize how stupid it was, and was sorely disappointed.
There were the usual 'muh ccp' jokes there, also shit about 'west taiwan' (ah yes 'I understand history very well'), and then one guy who really caught my attention saying Chinese 'people' (savages) don't matter because they speak a different language from 'us' (the civilized white people). Now granted that isn't the most charitable interpretation, but... like... come on, this is reddit.
Shit like this makes my blood boil. Because libs will go, 'oh we accept everyone!' 'we hate the government not the people!' and drop the most disgusting garbage like this because they're proud little pigs knowing how much propaganda they can fucking shove down their own throats and see an entire race as subhuman. I've always thought reeducation was better than punishment and that a lot of these folks are simply misguided, but jesus christ they're not making it easy for me to suppress the desire to bind them to a rock with metal chains and beat their ribs to pieces with my bare fists and/or a metal bar while screaming "BEG FOR MERCY NOW YOU RACIST SHIT-FOR-BRAINS!"
It gets even more frustrating when it's people you know in real life. I have a trans friend who generally has pretty good takes on stuff like palestine, disabled rights etc, but even he regurgitates the same shit from the state department and about how he'd 'definitely kill xi if he got the chance.'
It's so fucking tiring that these assholes can just turn the 'counts as human' switch on and off whenever they want for whatever race they want and suffer no consequences whatsoever. Really makes me wish I could Diver Down their screens and remind them of the weight of their words by bashing in their pale distorted sweaty reddit faces.
rant over.
I can promise you it is not only a YT thing; it is a majority YT thing for sure. Mexico is an example of this. When I lived in Florida, some of the most hostile opinions I came across about China was from Latin-Americans (specifically Nicaraguans and Puerto Ricans from what I'VE met, not sure if there is sociological basis to that in Nicaragua or Puerto Rico or just observer bias).
This was observed from my co-workers, some local work I did down there with IWW and bus-stop stranger talk. Most of it was just political talk but there was a few comments on my partner. (Yes, I talk about politics at a Florida bus-stop because I fucking hate myself)
My boss would NOT entertain anything nice to say about China, even passively. Also, I'm not saying there is an inherent racism amongst Nicaraguans and Puerto Ricans. Something sociologically was encouraging deep sinophobia and I'm curious on what it was. Or I just met some particularly sinophobic people in the area.
if the us can be considered the stronghold of the petit bourgeoisie of the global south (gusanos), florida is their capital lol.
The only good thing about that place is the fact I met the love of my life there and the NASA museum is sick as hell.
That's about it.
well you both found a needle in a haystack then!
(lets still nuke that place)