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  • You can just call him a nationalist or a patsoc. The rhetoric he espouses isn’t any different from Chinese nationalists of other ethnicities, and from his videos it’s clear he cares about preserving minority culture/ is proud of its preservation. The few “Han nationalists” that exist live in the US or Taiwan and have a intense hatred for the mainland/the CPC and tend to be very pro-US (they both share the goal of a balkanizing China based off of ethnicity).






  • Diaspora really isn’t reflective of the culture in China. In CaptainCool07’s case he got drawn into the conservative side of US culture wars simply because many “progressive” polices and politicians (especially in San Francisco) openly discriminate against Asians.

    The traditional Chinese position on LGBTQ+ was generally more progressive than the standard liberal position up until the 2000s. For example negativity towards homosexual relations didn’t really exist until westernization in the 19th century on[1]. In regards to trans issues it seems that like in many cultures there just wasn’t a conception of trans people, but at the minimum crossdressing had no stigma[2]. Personally I don’t think hostility towards western values is unfounded when it was western values that introduced homophobia in the first place. As a someone who is Bi I personally think arguments that appeals to traditional values or marxism are going to be much more effective than reusing western liberal idpol rhetoric.

    [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_China

    [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transgender_people_in_China#Cross_dressing_in_Peking_Opera







  • idahocom@lemmygrad.mltoShit Reactionaries Say@lemmygrad.ml???
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    11 months ago

    Cantonese people are Han chinese. Saying otherwise is like saying WASPs aren’t white lmao. If the Cantonese aren’t Han then nobody is. The whole reason Cantonese speakers make such a big deal out dialect stuff like this is because they consider it a more “pure” dialect than Mandarin uninfluenced by Northern minority languages like Mongol of Manchu.