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Baizuo was either came up by or came up by a fan of some reactionary netizen who's famous for some unhinged ideology called Auntology. You can read a summary of Auntology for yourself. It's just unhinged reactionary shit. A weird part of it is that he actually wants to balkanize China. I think a lot of those balkanized China maps floating around were made by his shitty fandom. So the weird thing about him is he isn't a Chinese ultranationalist (he doesn't think China should exist) or a Han chauvinist (he apparently thinks Han isn't a real ethnicity) but some Chinese reactionary who wants to balkanize China.
The bai in baizuo is also from baichi, which means idiot. So, baizuo doesn't just mean white left but also idiotic left. A more fitting translation of baizuo would be white leftoid or white left*rd.
That term was always sus.
There’s an online obsession with musk on parts of China? Damm that’s sad
Elon won't be dictating policy, he'll be dictating who in government gets purged. The job he's angling for is to be the one to determine who goes and who stays.
He'll determine who survives to dictate policy.
You know how when a company wants to save money and it sacks 60% of the workforce? That's what Musk wants to be in charge of doing to the US government and all of its agencies.
I was unaware, thanks for the insight! I thought domestic EVs were already bigger in China.
Comrade? No. Take down the US empire? Maybe lmao
Not Chinese (nationality) but there are gay, trans, internationalist people who love geopolitics, maps, etc!!! Dozens of us!!! (Actually far more than dozens, it's more common than you'd think)
shit I'd better make a different plan for my upcoming visit to China
I'm totally kidding I'd much rather learn about the person I'm talking to and their life. I'm not going to bring up politics (other than wearing a sweatshirt with a huge CPC emblem on it)
I know exactly what you're talking about lmao
So, like, nazbol except they're most of the Chinese left? Is that what you're saying?
The anti-imperialist left in the Global south being historically anti-LGBT because they see it as an arm of western oppression is a wild statement
Explain skin equality then
I don't think it's proper to dilute the usage of nazbol in the same manner that fascist has been as a label for everything that has reactionary and/or chauvinistic characteristics.
If anything I’m strengthening the term because these people have an actual presence (?) and potentially have influence over a state, unlike Nazbols.
I'll agree to disagree then
They're only nazbol, in so far as that "nationalistic" part refers to national chauvinism... it could mean something more defensive
As someone who lost family to that cracker's crime bill, I absolutely would agree with that take tbh. I hope I live to see the entirety of the Biden lineage die out uncontinued.
They would like him more if they knew about his crime bill
The connection between baizuo and baichi was established by those reactionaries. Like, you can say that baizuo is just an abbreviated form of baichi zuopai (idiotic left). "bai = white and zuo = left, so baizuo = white left" is something you would say if you just ran each character individually through Google Translate. Nobody calls the Black Panthers "heizuo" even though the two characters translated separately is "Black left."
My broader point is that the term, due to its reactionary origins, isn't as innocently translated as "white left."
You have to remember the term originated from terminally online netizens. It's like how "leftoid" is "left" + "-oid," but the "-oid" comes from "removed," as in the former medical term for Down's Syndrome. Terminally online reactionaries do this shit all the time like how channers purposely use the okay hand sign as a shibboleth.
Hmm a "soyboy wojak" situation
Or how "aquaponics" is "aquaculture hydroponics."
Ehhhh, when the definitions are so close but the differences are so important that gets a little shaky, because confusing the two definitions is extremely easy. A lot of the context in which I can imagine a hexbear user using the word would make total sense with the more reactionary definition, just as much as with the better and less reactionary one, so it would be easy to misinterpret as more reactionary. And even if everyone involved knows what it means it could open up wiggle room for reactionaries to slip into site discussions, by using the term's plausible deniability to get away with terrible statements.
"Western chauvinistic leftist" or language equivalent is generally just clearer and seems to have less murky and questionable of a background.
Plus some words just inherently emanate Hitler particles. I don't know if this counts as such a word necessarily, but the definition given on this post comes close enough to extremely strange Nazi-Bolshevik brainworms to be uncomfortable. If the term literally is referring to mental capacity and not levels of chauvinism or evil than it is definitely a Hitler particle emanating phrase.
I'm sure your friends mean no harm, it just isn't something I personally think should be given the complete green light to be used. (Here, probably fine in friend contexts and stuff) Maybe like a amber light for caution.
USAmericans insisting that they are "not like other leftists"
Auntology as a handle is really funny though, if it's a pun on hauntology
auntology? ain't that what mark fisher was always on about?