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”.
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.