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> Another person told me that these Chinese nationalists were only a vocal minority, similar to the wokes in America circa 2020. I have no idea what this is su
by talldayo 2y ago
> Another person told me that these Chinese nationalists were only a vocal minority, similar to the wokes in America circa 2020.
I have no idea what this is supposed to elicit from me as a reader. "[A] vocal minority, similar to the wokes" ...that won the election?
It feels like you could say this for every American election year and it would sound equally as stupid. In 2012 it was the economic reformists and pro-regulation pundits, in 2016 it was virulent anti-woke crowd and staunch defenders of nationalism. So on and so forth. Were any of these really minority opinions, or was it that they were hot-topic issues at the time that divided voting citizens along party lines?
- SpicyLemonZest 2y agoThe point is that, if your only exposure to American public opinion was Twitter, you might get an unrealistic view of how to understand the relationship between public opinion and government policy. It's not the case that the 2020 election proves the American people broadly endorse the most extreme left-wing thought on Twitter, any more than the Twitter ownership change and 2024 election proves that the American people have now become extreme right-wing devotees.