Hillary Clinton and Hannah Arendt thought to be among authors of books procured by officials, as Xi Jinping tightens grip on Communist party
  • @PugJesusEnglish
    10•10 hours ago

    Oh good, wouldn’t want thoughtcrime to pop up.

  • Flying SquidMEnglish
    24•13 hours ago

    This is not the current CCP, but China has the award for the most stupid censorship of all time.

    Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland was banned in the province of Hunan, China by the KMT’s government, beginning in 1931, due to its portrayal of anthropomorphized animals which act with the same level of complexity as human beings. The censor General Ho Chien believed that attributing human language to animals was an insult to humans. He feared that the book would teach children to believe that humans and animals were on the same level, a result which would be “disastrous.”

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_censorship_in_China

    • some pirateEnglish
      4•7 hours ago

      -Could they turn into westeners? -no, sir even wose. They could turn unto vegans

  • Flying SquidMEnglish
    61•15 hours ago

    See, Republicans? You and the CCP aren’t all that different! There’s common ground here!

      • @InverseParallaxEnglish
        40•15 hours ago

        Also both are in favor of racial genocide.

        • TheTechnician27English
          34•14 hours ago

          And both call a lot of things communism that aren’t actually communism.

        • Flying SquidMEnglish
          27•14 hours ago

          Both have a cult of personality around the leader and the concept of an ethnostate.

        • @cm0002English
          14•14 hours ago

          Oof don’t say that around @[email protected] they get bigly mad when you point out bad things about the CCP lmao

            • @cm0002English
              3•9 hours ago

              @[email protected] won’t, judging by his profile he’s too afraid to post his propaganda and shit takes outside the safety of the .ml echo chamber and the “friendly mods”

  • @SassyRamenEnglish
    17•13 hours ago

    Imagine being sent to the labor mines for reading Twighlight.

    • acargitzEnglish
      4•8 hours ago

      None of the corruption cases publicly reveal what reading materials the fallen cadres had accessed. But a list of banned titles published by China Digital Times offers some possibilities. The list includes writings on Chinese politics and history, including the Tiananmen Square massacre and the disastrous Mao-era policies that saw millions die from famine, violence, and political purges. There are books scrutinising the modern CCP’s politics and power, or sharing the views of political enemies and critics like Hong Kong tycoon and activist Jimmy Lai, the exiled Tibetan Dalai Lama, and Bo Xilai, the fallen political foe of Xi Jinping. Hillary Clinton’s memoir is on the list, as is Machiavelli’s The Prince, and Hannah Arendt’s The Origins of Totalitarianism.