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So I made a comment on worldnews criticizing Chinese activity in the south china sea and apparently got banned for it by the automod. This happen to anyone else? Is this Lemmy's version of the need help post and the shape of things to come?

The instance I posted in was Lemmy.ml

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[–] ChowJeeBai 63 points 8 months ago (3 children)

For those of you asking/ curious, the reason given was 'yellow peril'. Really? I guess my being asian and directly affected by the Chinese activities in the scs makes me somehow a threat to yellow people?

[–] [email protected] 24 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

Same. I literally have family in China and therefore a real stake in Chinese society. Meanwhile a bunch of western tankies who have never been to China and don't speak the language hand down bans merely for me relaying conversations I've actually had with real Chinese people in their native language about Chinese history and politics.

It's simple racism to infantilise all Chinese people like this, believing they need a bunch of white saviors on the Internet to speak for them and guard their cultural chastity.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Simply mentioning china or any ethnicity at all is seen as racism to them because grounding reality in anything other than communist propaganda is seen as a threat.

[–] ChowJeeBai 4 points 8 months ago

Holy shit theyve drunk the cool aid. There's articles about mainland students just exploding in college classes when bringing up Chinese topics. Or the video about the piano player being intimidated and wrongly accused of impropriety for making a video. The problem is when the authorities side with these bullies, or play it down.

[–] stoly 6 points 8 months ago

Did you know that if you support Ukraine, the tankies say that makes you racist against Asians? No joke , that’s what I was called. You see, they say, Russia is actually an Asian country.

This isn’t a joke and happened to me. And the people were really really cross with me.

[–] Mango 7 points 8 months ago

Simpsons did it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Lmao that username. You're either Malaysian or Singaporean.

[–] ChowJeeBai 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Hahaha. I recognize your usernamr from 'the other place'

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Leddit? Yeah I was active there, then decided to leave.

[–] ChowJeeBai 3 points 8 months ago

Same, with a name change to go with it. Hope things work out here mate!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (2 children)

HK or Cantonese could work as well.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Cibai is a Hokkien insult, not a Cantonese insult

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Canton is part of main land Chinese, they use the same standard pinyin.

Ofcourse you can be edgy and use Wade-Giles or some new thing that Taiwan came up with.