You're so close to getting it with that definition of Baizhou. That contemporary Chinese people are capable of having a negative conceptualization of the Red Guards in the Cultural Revolution so clearly defined they can mock the West over it should be a pretty strong clue that the China narrative in English doesn't have any internal consistency and hasn't for quite some time at this point.
I mean, my take-away from that graphic was that sane Westerners *also* think of the Modern Woke Progressive White as being like the Red Guard ... But Dumber.
> To forestall the questions and deflect the criticisms, it is possible that there are certain factions within Western governments which have decided to try to incite the more impetuous and proactive parts of the new right coalition to acts of violence, hoping that such moves would justify a crackdown and the seizure of more state power.
I could see this in essentially any other country (though perhaps I'm making the same mistake as I did at the start of Covid about just *how* willing Americans are to Fuck Shit Up) but here... man, that is not a powder-keg that *I* would want to light the fuse on.
You're so close to getting it with that definition of Baizhou. That contemporary Chinese people are capable of having a negative conceptualization of the Red Guards in the Cultural Revolution so clearly defined they can mock the West over it should be a pretty strong clue that the China narrative in English doesn't have any internal consistency and hasn't for quite some time at this point.
I mean, my take-away from that graphic was that sane Westerners *also* think of the Modern Woke Progressive White as being like the Red Guard ... But Dumber.
Oh, gods, this is *so* not helping my blackpilldom...
> To forestall the questions and deflect the criticisms, it is possible that there are certain factions within Western governments which have decided to try to incite the more impetuous and proactive parts of the new right coalition to acts of violence, hoping that such moves would justify a crackdown and the seizure of more state power.
I could see this in essentially any other country (though perhaps I'm making the same mistake as I did at the start of Covid about just *how* willing Americans are to Fuck Shit Up) but here... man, that is not a powder-keg that *I* would want to light the fuse on.