China cracks down on Communist party officials for reading banned books (www.theguardian.com)
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MediaBiasFactChecker@lemmy.world on 13 Oct 17:04 next collapse
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FlyingSquid@lemmy.world on 13 Oct 17:14 next collapse

See, Republicans? You and the CCP aren’t all that different! There’s common ground here!

ravhall@discuss.online on 13 Oct 17:33 collapse

They also have something in common: neither of them practice communism ☺️

InverseParallax@lemmy.world on 13 Oct 17:34 collapse

Also both are in favor of racial genocide.

TheTechnician27@lemmy.world on 13 Oct 17:56 next collapse

And both call a lot of things communism that aren’t actually communism.

ravhall@discuss.online on 13 Oct 18:42 collapse

Like themselves 😅

FlyingSquid@lemmy.world on 13 Oct 17:57 next collapse

Both have a cult of personality around the leader and the concept of an ethnostate.

Saleh@feddit.org on 13 Oct 20:41 collapse

Both also like forced labor of incarcerated people.

cm0002@lemmy.world on 13 Oct 18:08 collapse

Oof don’t say that around @dessalines@lemmy.ml they get bigly mad when you point out bad things about the CCP lmao

ravhall@discuss.online on 13 Oct 18:42 next collapse

Name an ML who doesn’t cry about Gaza but totally turn a blind eye to China.

InverseParallax@lemmy.world on 13 Oct 19:18 next collapse

You have been banned from /r/pyongyang.

Walk_blesseD@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 13 Oct 22:10 collapse

Inb4 they show up in this thread with a bunch of apologia for a fascist state

cm0002@lemmy.world on 13 Oct 23:38 collapse

@dessalines@lemmy.ml won’t, judging by his profile he’s too afraid to post his propaganda and shit takes outside the safety of the .ml echo chamber and the “friendly mods”

ModernRisk@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 13 Oct 18:25 next collapse

I’m actually curious which books they have bought.

theacharnian@lemmy.ca on 14 Oct 00:10 collapse

None of the corruption cases publicly reveal what reading materials the fallen cadres had accessed. But a list of banned titles published by China Digital Times offers some possibilities. The list includes writings on Chinese politics and history, including the Tiananmen Square massacre and the disastrous Mao-era policies that saw millions die from famine, violence, and political purges. There are books scrutinising the modern CCP’s politics and power, or sharing the views of political enemies and critics like Hong Kong tycoon and activist Jimmy Lai, the exiled Tibetan Dalai Lama, and Bo Xilai, the fallen political foe of Xi Jinping. Hillary Clinton’s memoir is on the list, as is Machiavelli’s The Prince, and Hannah Arendt’s The Origins of Totalitarianism.

SassyRamen@lemmy.world on 13 Oct 18:57 next collapse

Imagine being sent to the labor mines for reading Twighlight.

InverseParallax@lemmy.world on 14 Oct 07:51 collapse

Sounds like a good start.

FlyingSquid@lemmy.world on 13 Oct 19:25 next collapse

This is not the current CCP, but China has the award for the most stupid censorship of all time.

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland was banned in the province of Hunan, China by the KMT’s government, beginning in 1931, due to its portrayal of anthropomorphized animals which act with the same level of complexity as human beings. The censor General Ho Chien believed that attributing human language to animals was an insult to humans. He feared that the book would teach children to believe that humans and animals were on the same level, a result which would be “disastrous.”

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_censorship_in_China

match@pawb.social on 13 Oct 19:52 next collapse

fursecution at its finest

Luisp@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 14 Oct 01:30 collapse

-Could they turn into westeners? -no, sir even wose. They could turn unto vegans

PugJesus@lemmy.world on 13 Oct 22:40 next collapse

Oh good, wouldn’t want thoughtcrime to pop up.

zabadoh@ani.social on 14 Oct 02:18 collapse

Clearly they hadn’t reached O’Brien’s status in the Party.