I ask because on basically every post of a video where no Chinese person is doing something bad, people immediately rush to calling it staged; Chinese person provides a needy person a meal? Staged. Chinese person offers meals for free to earthquake rescue workers? Staged. Chinese person helps someone across a road? Staged. Uyghur just operating a stand being asked by an American tourist if they’re living peacefully (to which they laugh and say yes)? Staged, or even saying yes because their lives depend on it.

Chinese person being racist however? Real. Chinese person yelling at someone and being rude? Real.

You know that racist trope people have of folks in Africa all believing in different superstitions or something? That’s the average American; the bizarre folklore we’ve created of people around the world would make Tolkien’s work seem like low fantasy.

Is it perhaps that white savior movies have rotted people’s brains, and they’re all imagining their normalcy would make them superior beings in foreign countries?

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    Chinese people disappear once they exit your FOV or render distance. Those videos you’re seeing are a set of predefined ‘random’ events for you to come across on social media.

    If you’re ever able to get your camera to clip through a building and see ahead of you where there are no textures on the inside of a mesh you can see the Chinese people T-posing just out of view ready to walk in once you get into ranfe.

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      I genuinely think libs would draw a blank if they actually tried to imagine what the average day of a Chinese person was like; either that, or they’d imagine a black and white China where everyone’s just crying or being overworked.

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        They’d legit get offended if asked to imagine such a thing. Source: I’ve literally asked this question with libs before and they act like I just killed their dog. Their offence protects their brains from evil seeseepee brainwashing waves that would cause them to start seeing Chinese people as human beings.

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    Hi, I’m a white person living in China There’s literally a large team of actors that follow me everywhere.

    People incorrectly think that Belt and Road was about trains, whereas the reality was that 2% of the Chinese population is tasked with providing positive social media for tourists and English teachers.

    I managed to escape my Chinese handlers once. The photo I took will shock you.

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      There’s also the additional 2% of the population who are Secret Police who follow around every individual actor to make sure they’re doing their job, and the next 2% of the population who are Secret Secret Police tasked with following the Secret Police around to make sure they’re doing their job. Sometimes the actors, Secret Police and Secret Secret Police get their wires crossed and you see them walking in circles like ants in a death spiral

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    It’s the white supremacy at the core of liberalism. China is providing a powerful and desirable alternative to NATO’s subjugation of the world, so those within the imperial core seize on any excuse to view Chinese people as subhuman. Same reason they call Russians orcs and repeat literal Nazi propaganda about them.

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      Fifty to a hundred years from now (maybe even just 20! Chinese people on twitter have always said that every 20 years is a major transformative period; that China always advances such that it’s unrecognizable every 20 years), the average American will be participating in the latest hunger games (because let’s be honest, those game shows where people humiliate themselves (such as the biggest loser) to earn tons of cash are real life hunger games) while Chinese people will…I’ve no idea; I only know America and the Middle East (cause I’ve been working here for almost two decades), I can’t imagine what a country that’s zipping along and actually doing what it can to actively advance would even look like that far ahead.

      There was a Chinese movie I saw a while back where they used powered exoskeletons to fight an alien invasion, only to find out that those powered exosuits are real and are used in factory work (obviously not as powerful as in the movie, but still extremely capable); for us slave labor and undocumented workers with basically no human rights are still king.

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      X, N, J and T were all banned by i ipig

      You joke but I know a lib who claims to not be as gullible as the average lib who was genuinely shocked when I told him there’s a Disneyland in China that has people dressed as Winnie the Pooh and that they sell Winnie the Pooh merch there; his instinctive reaction was to ask ‘It’s not banned?!’

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        One of the biggest things that gave me a suspicion that it wasn’t as bad as the propaganda was knowing a lot of people who moved from China growing up, and none that I knew ever complained about anything in China, if it was so dystopian you would think they would say something about that? I guess people rationalize it by saying it’s just so instilled in them not to question authority.

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        The ‘letters being banned’ thing is also based on a widely reported story about the letter N being blocked on weibo during a leadup to the Two Sessions that credulous westerners ate right up

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    If you’ve ever been to China you will know that they’re is never a time when people aren’t filming themselves doing something. They loves themselves their cameras