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This is more of the protectionism/mercantilism/nationalism stuff. Sure, there's a B-story for it but it's all seated in revanchist nationalism and a tropish "su
by kristopolous 6y ago
This is more of the protectionism/mercantilism/nationalism stuff. Sure, there's a B-story for it but it's all seated in revanchist nationalism and a tropish "suspicious foreigners" framing.
If someone made a villainous fu manchu character people would rightly protest it as intolerable. Yet when we actually instrument official government policy based on the same sentiments that the character is based on nobody even reaches for the pearls to clutch.
Once again, fiction and symbols are somehow more important to the political imagination than material reality.
- haecceity 6y ago> If someone made a villainous fu manchu character people would rightly protest it as intolerable. Asian stereotypes in media is pretty well tolerated.
- kristopolous 6y agoit's been toned down enormously. Mickey Rooney in Breakfast at Tiffany's as Mr Yunioshi for instance (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hb3gdUrIC4Q https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hb3gdUrIC4Q) this used to be common. The Flintstones, for instance https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZ8lGDLARME https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZ8lGDLARME ... it was bad ... really bad. If something like this was made today and the people somehow ended up in court over it, I'd probably think "well, they saw that coming"
- Craighead 6y agoThe material reality you're ignoring is that China is a massive authoritarian state which owns the data captured by tiktok Choose, US companies taking your data applying the philosophy of the Constitution or Chinese companies perpetrating genocide. Stay holier than thou all you want, the material reality is real.