As a Chinese person who loves the CPC–every fucking time I go onto baidu forums my feed gets clogged with a few interesting articles and all of this wonky shit.
Apparently if you express any opinions remotely pro-west, you get called a “bootlicker”, and of course there’s the classic “kneeling so long you no longer know how to stand” and that kind of super cringy shit. in addition, they seem to want Xi replaced with Chinese Hitler, as they genuinely think Chinese are the masterrace. There’s constantly shit about how black people are inferior, and one article even suggested a “final solution” for “dealing with the black problem”. They also seem to want the blood of white people & japanese, including several overenthusiastic posters who wanted to murder japanese women and children and feed their dead bodies to dogs.
Uh yeah totally sane just normal-ass patriotism, nothing to see here.
On the other end of the spectrum you have these guys who always criticize the government for no fucking reason. CCTV praises beauty of fields? They don’t understand the pain of the farmers. CCTV praise hard work? They don’t understand the pain of the workers. They seem to hold the belief that all government officials are evil and corrupt, city management exists to brutalize old people. They probably hold a higher view of the Gestapo than their own police. The source they’re probably getting this shit from? A TV show.
Yes, a fucking TV show. And not just any TV show but Kuang Biao, the Chinese Breaking Bad (in terms of cultural status, it’s not about meth). Yes, these people watch this show and apply it to reality. It’s kind of sad.
rant over.
Baidu forums is like 4chan and twitter had a baby
Not to mention the nature of internet (self explanatory);
and the nature of the population size (even if you have 99 good people for 1 hateful nazi in China making it infinitely better than the west, it still means China is a country with tens of millions of nazis running around);
and the nature of a socialist country that had to go through the propaganda and oppression of the post-cold war era (when you have been under decades of anti-third world pro-west propaganda, it’s hard not to push back in the other direction. Some of these people have been brainwashed and believed all their life that Chinese people are sinners who deserved genocide for wasting energy and pollution because of their inferior way of life, now they learn all long the average person in the west west waste and pollutes tens times more, what is the logical conclusion?);
I would say it’s fairly understandable and there’s no point letting it get to you. If I can think of a good comeback in 10 seconds I will type something, otherwise I just move on.