So I made a comment on worldnews criticizing Chinese activity in the south china sea and apparently got banned for it by the automod. This happen to anyone else? Is this Lemmy’s version of the need help post and the shape of things to come?

The instance I posted in was Lemmy.ml

  • @ChowJeeBaiOP
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    For those of you asking/ curious, the reason given was ‘yellow peril’. Really? I guess my being asian and directly affected by the Chinese activities in the scs makes me somehow a threat to yellow people?

    • @[email protected]
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      10 months ago

      Same. I literally have family in China and therefore a real stake in Chinese society. Meanwhile a bunch of western tankies who have never been to China and don’t speak the language hand down bans merely for me relaying conversations I’ve actually had with real Chinese people in their native language about Chinese history and politics.

      It’s simple racism to infantilise all Chinese people like this, believing they need a bunch of white saviors on the Internet to speak for them and guard their cultural chastity.

      • @[email protected]
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        1010 months ago

        Simply mentioning china or any ethnicity at all is seen as racism to them because grounding reality in anything other than communist propaganda is seen as a threat.

        • @ChowJeeBaiOP
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          410 months ago

          Holy shit theyve drunk the cool aid. There’s articles about mainland students just exploding in college classes when bringing up Chinese topics. Or the video about the piano player being intimidated and wrongly accused of impropriety for making a video. The problem is when the authorities side with these bullies, or play it down.

      • @stoly
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        Did you know that if you support Ukraine, the tankies say that makes you racist against Asians? No joke , that’s what I was called. You see, they say, Russia is actually an Asian country.

        This isn’t a joke and happened to me. And the people were really really cross with me.

    • @Mango
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      710 months ago

      Simpsons did it.

      • @ChowJeeBaiOP
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        510 months ago

        Hahaha. I recognize your usernamr from ‘the other place’

          • @ChowJeeBaiOP
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            310 months ago

            Same, with a name change to go with it. Hope things work out here mate!

        • TwinTusks
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          110 months ago

          Canton is part of main land Chinese, they use the same standard pinyin.

          Ofcourse you can be edgy and use Wade-Giles or some new thing that Taiwan came up with.