Underlying radlib hand-wringing over Han Supremacy is a crudely racist fear, a nightmare of being overrun by an oriental horde. As well, an unacknowledged and/or unstated anxiety over the upsetting of the american-led neoliberal order.Trendy buzzword, sound and fury, signifying nothing. Brainlessly parroted by those with no understanding of the complexity of Chinese society, with no meaningful way to access its subtleties, and with no knowledge of China's classical and modern history. Too lazy to investigate, too arrogant to acknowledge knowledge deficiencies, and blind to their solipsistic ignorance.If they were to investigate, they would learn that constitutionally acknowledged and protected minority rights, and substantiv programs and policies of affirmative action, have resulted in this contradiction:A regressive social current, (which yet doesn't rise to the level of dominant social trend), asserts the supremacy of Han culture and history, precisely IN REACTION to the progressive role of the CPC in protecting and elevating minority populations.If the state promoted Han Supremacy as a matter of ideology, policy and practice, it would be indeed intolerable and unsupportable. The opposite appears to be true.In their ignorance and confusion over the dialectical relationship between progress and reaction, radlibs conflate an internal social current with Chinese state ideology and practice, as well as betray their own racist anxieties. via /r/communism https://ift.tt/3hn2q8j
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