Welcome again to everybody. Make yourself at home. In the time-honoured tradition of our group, here is the weekly discussion thread.
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Yesss, so much this. That’s one of the things I’ve tried to address in my own thinking in becoming more communist and less liberal, is if I don’t know enough about something, I don’t need to have a “take” on it. Especially I try to apply this with countries I don’t live in. Most of the time, if I’m being honest with myself, I know little about the realities of them. And it’s one of the things that motivates me to learn Mandarin, so that I can learn about China from the perspective of China and Chinese people living there, not through a western imperialist “endless lies” filter.
Liberals have main character syndrome. and its fucking annoying.
Also, I got on Redbook recently to see what the hype is all about. It’s been a really good, mostly wholesome experience. As a Westerner it’s been cool to talk with people from China about daily life and run into the odd culture clash.