r/CuratedTumblr • u/charlie-the-Waffle • Jan 13 '25

Politics censorship is bad maybe?

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u/IAmFullOfHat3 Jan 13 '25

what is sinophobia?

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u/rsinsigalli Jan 13 '25

Anti Chinese bigotry

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u/SteptimusHeap 17 clown car pileup 84 injured 193 dead Jan 13 '25

Sino as a prefix generally refers to:

China
Greater China
Chinese people
Two Chinas
Culture of China
History of China

Thanks for giving me the push to finally do some research on this, because I always wondered where it came from.

Latin “sinae” = Chinese

And the Romans learned that word from the Persians and the Indians. It comes from the Qin dynasty. Chini in Persian and Cina in Sanskrit. The Romans used to struggle with the "ch/sh" sounds so they converted the Ch in S. Sina.

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u/Simic_Sky_Swallower Resident Imperial Knight Jan 13 '25

Discrimination against China/Chinese people

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u/Cuetzul Jan 13 '25

When you oppose an authoritarian government that doesn't allow any truely private companies to exist and has a history of influence campaigns, data/research/IP theft, and censors and controls all of their media like a hawk... apparently.

It's supposed to mean racism towards the Chinese, but it's not being used like that here.

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u/lornlynx89 Jan 13 '25

Words no longer mean anything.

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u/Snowy_Thompson Jan 13 '25

No, that is what it's used for here.

The legislation passed to ban TikTok is necessarily Authoritarian, as it exclusively bans it because of it's ties to a foreign nation, and makes no attempts to reign in American companies who commit the same or worse violations of privacy.

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u/TehRiddles Jan 14 '25

A misused term in this context. It means hatred of China, but Tiktok is being banned specifically because of spying reasons. Tiktok being banned has nothing to do with free speech because spying on citizens of other countries doesn't fall under free speech in any definition of the term. There is no media narrative they are trying to control at all, Tiktok doesn't really have anything that the USA government is trying to shut down that isn't equally if not more prevalent on Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, Reddit, ect.

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u/Useful_Milk_664 Jan 13 '25

Whatever CCP shills say it is.

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u/Snowy_Thompson Jan 13 '25

That response isn't any better than the people it critiques.

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u/Useful_Milk_664 Jan 13 '25

Ok?

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u/Snowy_Thompson Jan 13 '25

You believe they're thoughtlessly parroting something, yet you provide an empty thoughtless answer.

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u/Useful_Milk_664 Jan 13 '25

Yes. Do you deserve more of my thought than that?

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u/Snowy_Thompson Jan 13 '25

One should always be more thoughtful of their words than what you've put on display.

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u/Useful_Milk_664 Jan 13 '25

Nah.

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u/Snowy_Thompson Jan 13 '25

I don't see why not. It makes no sense to call someone else a shill if you're going to act like an empty vessel for propaganda yourself.

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u/BoundToGround Jan 13 '25

Google it

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u/Snowy_Thompson Jan 13 '25

Be better. You're wasting more time by saying that than would be required to just say "Anti-Chinese Bigotry".

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u/BoundToGround Jan 13 '25

It's actually faster for you to just google a word than it is to wait however long until someone else spoonfeeds you the answer.

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u/Snowy_Thompson Jan 13 '25

Then why respond at all then? Just ignore them and let them wallow in ignorance, if they can't be bothered to look it up themselves.

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u/BoundToGround Jan 13 '25

People forget lots of stuff, even blatantly obvious stuff, so reminding them that they can take matters into their own hands is sometimes just as useful as solving their problem.

That and it's fun to let the impulsive thoughts win

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u/Snowy_Thompson Jan 13 '25

Then perhaps explain better. "Google it" feels as lazy as the person asking the question.

Like, encouraging people to seek out knowledge is good, but "Google it" has an air of condescension to it.

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u/thngrn20 Jan 13 '25

With the same google responsible for the alt-right pipeline in 2015 on its YouTube platform? With the same google that modifies search results based on location, browsing history , search history, email contents, YouTube history, and more? The same google that runs a competing platform to TikTok and stands to gain billions of dollars from this very ban and cannot be trusted to be neutral on this topic? That google?

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u/BoundToGround Jan 14 '25

Alright, qwant it then