中国共产党万岁

No, the author is not an anticommunist. This book would not be so widely promoted in China if it were anticommunist. His depictions of the cultural revolution are focused on the suffering people went through in a neutral way. I don’t think it’s controversial in China to say that there were issues with the cultural revolution that led to suffering for some. Here’s an official narrative to summarize the cultural revolution on Chinese internet:

文化大革命全称“无产阶级文化大革命”，发生于1966年5月至1976年10月，是一场由领导者错误发动，被反革命集团利用，给党、国家和各族人民带来严重灾难的内乱，留下了极其惨痛的教训。[1][3][4]

The full name of the Cultural Revolution is the “Proletarian Cultural Revolution”, which took place from May 1966 to October 1976. It was a civil unrest that was wrongly launched by leaders and used by counter-revolutionary groups to bring serious disasters to the Party, the country and the people of all ethnic groups, leaving an extremely painful lesson.

惊弓之鸟

I urge you to read To Live. I think it would help you through these emotions

I have no idea tbh

It is true that there are many hotels across NYC that have been repurposed to house newly immigrated people. The people living there are mostly from Latin America, but also there are hotels of people just from sub-saharan Africa, so it’s a diverse mix.

I am in contact with someone who works directly on managing new immigrants for NYC. From what they’ve told me, it is a serious crisis for the city, since they are constantly looking for increasingly creative ways to house everyone. Their allocated capacity would run out and they’d have to scramble to accommodate new arrivals.

What other place could have:

• Police on every corner
• Ubiquitous surveillance
• Systemic repression

what’s that? it’s new york city? whoops.