Teen Vogue Editor Resigns After Fury over Racist Tweets

Re:Teen Vogue Editor Resigns After Fury over Racist Tweets by ipsocannibal on Thursday March 18, 2021 @06:56PM (#26508415)

If she were studying abroad in China and posted this I doubt the Chinese would care. They don't share the same sensibilities about identity and race as the west. To project these sensibilities on to them is kind of racist in and of itself.

Of course the point is moot because most Western social media is blocked in China anyway.

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Re:Teen Vogue Editor Resigns After Fury over Racist Tweets by FooBarBizBazz on Thursday March 18, 2021 @11:38PM (#26509957)

They don't truly care, but they will cynically pretend to "share the same sensibilities" when it seems useful. Chinese propaganda brands forced sterilization as "female empowerment", and denounces other things it doesn't like as "white supremacy". They see an ideological vulnerability and they try to exploit it.

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Re:Teen Vogue Editor Resigns After Fury over Racist Tweets by ipsocannibal on Friday March 19, 2021 @12:12AM (#26510098)

I don't disagree with your statement but I think we should be specific in describing this as a CCP tactic. The people and their government are not one and the same or always of a like mind.

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Re:Teen Vogue Editor Resigns After Fury over Racist Tweets by FooBarBizBazz on Friday March 19, 2021 @01:04AM (#26510304)

Absolutely, we should be clear about that, especially right now. Point well taken.

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