Someone commented that sanctions wouldn’t work on China because sanctions were too harsh, and that the US should treat China as a parent does a child, educating them and encouraging them toward US goals so that sanctions were unnecessary.
I pointed out that China and the US do not remotely have a paternal relationship and a culturally American call to China would not elicit a culturally American response from China because of how different the cultures are.
Got banned for “Orientalism”.
I recall hearing about that happening on lemmy.ml in the past.
The only way to not get banned there is to sing the praises of Dear Leader Xi.
Let me get this straight: They support the Xi regime and the way they criticize those who don’t is to use a term that is racist to Chinese people? I don’t think they even know what they support.
Those sound like orientalist views
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If you go into something with a radicalist, extremist or fanatic disposition, even if you started from a rational starting point aiming at a plausible and reasonable goal, you’ll still stray and end up in the wasteland of irrationality.