• tocopherol@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    6 months ago

    It’s funny how people that casually see hexbear always say this but there is critique about things China does there all the time, most posts are jokes so outsiders might misinterpret it. Hexbear doesn’t really stan anything as a unit except the end of Western imperialism.

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      6 months ago

      Every time I interact with any hexbear user in anything remotely related to China, it is flying whataboutism “But U.S. …”, “It is unlike the west haven’t …”, “We should fix our own problem first”.

      Thanks, I am trying to fix our own problem. I am Chinese… And they would never defend any western allies’ action with the same whataboutism (of course I am not saying they should, whataboutism is a valid excuse to neither China nor the west), like they did with China and Russia. To me, this feels like pro-China/pro-Russia bias.

      Besides, the world is definitely not better off with more dictators, people shouldn’t be fine with repression just because they are not in the same country as you.

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        6 months ago

        Thanks, I am trying to fix our own problem. I am Chinese…

        I have been accused of not being able to correctly interpret East Asian history because of my eurocentric biases… I am Korean.

        It’s crazy how much they (typically white Europeans) accuse people of being sinophobic or eurocentric, and then attempt to explain East Asian history to Asian people in the most eurocentric way possible.

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      6 months ago

      Obviously no community is a monolith, but if I come across a user with that kind of viewpoint, it’ll be from one of the stereotypical instances.