To understand China you need to understand whiteness, yet it's missing from the conversation
Far too often the conversation around the rise of China is in geo-political terms, about authoritarianism versus democracy. But race sits at the heart of it all, writes Stan Grant.
Don’t link to those clowns, use http://archive.is
Seriously, whatever happened to using archives by default? We need to establish some constructive bullying on this board.
I've been trying but I need more communal backing. We have far too many regulars who don't see the point and are lazy or outright subversive.
ABC is somehow even worse than every mainstream American news source. I'm still not totally certain it's not an extremely dry yet laser-accurate satire of current year media.
It’s… It’s not satire.
That’s our “public broadcaster”. It’s PBS meets NPR meets the BBC meets DW.
You’re seeing, in essence, what the government, or at least, the public service, actually thinks, but cannot publicly come out and say…
Although the ABC’s bias was at least as bad when under a conservative government, so, perhaps, arguably they may be an extreme left outlier, even in the Australian public service…
They’ve been utterly unhinged for nearly a decade now, at least…
ah yes the han chinese ethnostate are huwite supreemist
Race does sit at the heart of a lot of problems in the world, and its missing from most conversations.
The problem is that its always just the American Racial lens, and occasionally the British, form of race that gets talked about. Instead of how much Asians hate one another, and especially any non-white/yellows.
There used to be a funny reddit about that. https://old.reddit.com/r/Shuffles_Deck/
Also, archive of this topic link: https://archive.ph/wFcqF
Shuffles Deck was one of those gems of Reddit.
Do they sit there cackling while they write this stuff
It’s Stan Grant. Unironically, yes, except the man lacks a humorous bone in his body, so… Malevolent evil cackling only, perhaps.
He just writes whatever he thinks will suit his grift.
It’s odd, because Stan Grant also works for a think tank that runs interference that suits the CCP, so…
Context is important here.
Stan Grant is… One of the worst political hacks in Australia. He claims to be Aboriginal (remember, no genetic testing is allowed, for that, anymore), and has essentially anointed himself as “Chief Aboriginal intellectual”. He comments on everything, all the time.
Dude also blacks it up. So much so that he has appeared on Reddit’s blackfishing sub, because it is so clear and obvious.
But more importantly than all that, he is literally a lobbyist for the CCP. He works for a think tank that directly receives funding from China. He also hosts a weekly show on ABC News (“China Today”, for those interested) spruiking the “wonders” of China’s culture and economy, and essentially running interference for the CCP. This is a clear conflict of interest, as is this article, yet no one at the ABC cares.
There’s like… A whole rabbit hole with this man. He’s not so much the “Dolezal”, as the… Elizabeth Warren of Australia, if Warren had gone into journalism instead of politics…
Like, he is so controversial that even the left despises him. The only people who like this man, or accept the bullshit he spouts, are seemingly the executive at the ABC, in addition to the Universities (including my own, depressingly) which regularly give him honorary doctorates, out of white guilt (and, presumably, because they are equally compromised by Chinese money)…
Even Grant’s colleagues seem to dislike working with him (because he is a pillock, mainly).
So yeah, while this may be representative of just how fucking insane the ABC is, now, it’s also… Let’s just say that this is even more telling than just that.
You mean the fact that Asians despise other Asians from other countries but especially every country around China because they feel an invasion force is on the border and also for ALL the shit Japan did around WW2 (unit 731).
It's different between the racism of the Americans where it seems ether to be of people who have settled worried about immigrants upsetting the balance they established and the black white divide where there is a feeling that because of slavery there can't be a peaceful outcome so better keep them separated.
And then there's the British one which, from the imperial days, was more of convenience, if you worked with them and didn't try to fight them chances are they didn't give a shit. During the battle of Trafalgar you had former slaves serving with the Navy as they didn't give a shit, if you followed orders and keep calm under pressure, you're in. Now it's about using that history of using everyone and portraying it as 'white man shoving the boot on anyone of a different skin colour'. And don't even mention the Arab racism, oh boy..
Well, from what I can see, 'whiteness' is a disease of the mind that makes one feel so insecure that they must create massive artificial distinctions and classifications to assume a position of authority and superiority rather than simply become good at something. Whiteness is a disease that develops in liberal minds, but is communicable through enough exposure and ignorance.