The problem with discourse about China is that we focus too much on irrelevant stuff like their geopolitical strategy & human rights violations, and not enough on the important stuff like their...*checks notes*...whiteness?...*ahem*..Yes, their whiteness - Kotaku In Action 2

The problem with discourse about China is that we focus too much on irrelevant stuff like their geopolitical strategy & human rights violations, and not enough on the important stuff like their...*checks notes*...whiteness?...*ahem*..Yes, their whiteness (www.abc.net.au)

posted 2 years ago by NotAGlowy 2 years ago by NotAGlowy +58 / -0

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.

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– bamboozler1 4 points 2 years ago +4 / -0

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…

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