freagle

This is ridiculous. You can’t weaken corporations using the government when the corporations drive the government. Popular option will not supersede corporate survival.

If you want to build a movement to weaken corporations, build a union.

Stop trying to legislate your way to weaker corps. It’ll take years and by the time anything happens they will outmaneuver the legislation anyway because they’ll see it come and have their political puppets create loopholes.

How would you stop them?

Yeah… so, recognizing that population competition is one of the ways that dominance can be exerted, China choosing to limit birth rates of the most populous ethnicity, which happens to be the dominant one, would be the opposite of eugenics used for reinforcing dominance. It’s actually an incredible defense of China because it shows that not only are they nothing like the West, the West can’t even conceive of what would motivate the dominant people to restrict their own privileges to reverse historical trends caused by dominance of their forebears.

You’ve got to be kidding comparing the One Child Policy of the dominant ethnic group, which the government itself was predominately composed of, and literal genocide and cultural genocide of white supremacists against the people they violently colonized.

Revolutions are context dependent. You can’t have a global revolution because it covers too many contexts. Global revolutions that do happen will be based on the contemporaneous development of local revolutions, that is to say a global revolution is a descriptive bottom up phenomenon, not a top down one.

You focus on your context. You figure out what that means. You do your part. Let other people do their part. You may find yourself as part of a global phenomenon, you may not.

Also, think about what a revolution is. It’s a replacement of a power structure. Globally, you could have a revolution against the UN, maybe. WTO? IMF? But you would have to get through your local power structure first.

So you focus on replacing the power structure in your context. Others focus on replacing the power structure in their context. And that’s how it goes.

Well, you could launch a war with Iran, for one. That’s looking like a good way to destroy the global economy.

1. Poverty (which they’re alleviating), and the trappings of poverty (like poor labor conditions, corruption, and abuse).
2. Environmental degradation (which they are alleviating) and all the trappings that come with it (like greater impact on the poor, bad health outcomes, corruption).
3. Threats from state actors (which they are alleviating) and the trappings that come it (like selective repression of dissent, organizing, and collaboration, surveillance and chilling effects, etc)

Literally anything that causes an idea to spread is propaganda. Advertising, calls for help, gossip, commentary, analysis, storytelling, hell public art or theater or even just public conflict. That’s what the word means, the means of idea propagation.

Wow. Just wow. You can’t possibly be this wrong, can you?

Let’s start with naming things. Han. The predominant Chinese culture you refer to is Han Chinese.

Let’s look at one law that everyone loves to talk about - the One Child Policy.

Did you know that the One Child Policy only applied to Han Chinese? That’s right. The Chinese government explicitly and openly promoted heterogeneity by limiting Han birth rates explicitly. Some other minorities were also restricted, that’s true, but they were restricted to two children - double the birthrate of the Han. All the other minorities were unrestricted.

That’s just one example of how wrong you are. Shall we do others?

Tibet and Xinjiang educate their children in their native language, in their native cultural traditions, and the governments of those regions run those regions in accordance with their best interpretation of the confluence between their own traditions and the Chinese system of government.

Let’s compare that to the US or Canada, shall we? No? You don’t want me to explain how Indian boarding schools literally beat children for speaking their native tongue, forcibly cut their traditional hair styles, and trained the children to hate their own families? You don’t want to hear about how such boarding schools existed into the 80s? Should we talk about US eugenics programs and the forced sterilization of a full third of the women on Puerto Rico or the forced sterilization of black and Indian women on the mainland? Is that too much for you?

How much more wrong can you possibly be?

China officially recognizes 11 languages that can be used to conduct official business. Eleven. Most American politicians couldn’t even name 11 languages.

Do you still think China enforces homogeneity? Are you so committed to your position that evidence cannot do anything to your Yellow Peril brain?

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What kind of global imperial superpower doesn’t drop bombs for 35 years in a row? That doesn’t sound like any global imperial superpower I have ever heard of in the last 600 years. If China is a global imperial superpower without doing the whole war crimes thing, I’m almost inclined to say you’ve sold me on global imperialist superpowers being redeemable!

A false dichotomy is when you only present two possible options when the set of options to choose from is much greater.

This is not attempting to get you to choose, but rather expose the hypocrisy of those who say “the US is bad right now but at least it’s not China”

Race was invented centuries before Darwin even considered that animals evolved from anything. Genetics doesn’t factor into it at all. The Europeans believed peoples were formed wholly from God’s will. They thought God made black people to be dominated by white people. That is to say, they made it all up without any hint of any adherence to truth.

No, old man. I am describing our current understanding of the history. It has always been this way, but the stories we used to tell about it were lies as well.

I should have specified what was wrong with the comment:

It’s the clash of cultures than normally causes the problems we see in the world that we mislabel as “race”.

This is not accurate race is not a mislabeling of the problems caused by a clash of cultures.

Race is a deliberately designed system of categorization used for the purposes of dehumanizing humans to solve the cognitive dissonance humans feel when they commit atrocities against other humans. de Zurara’s writing was at the request of Prime Henry, who was kidnapping people from Africa, torturing them, and selling them into chattel slavery. De Zurara invented categories for people that attempted to make this behavior rational and justified.

It’s not an ambient phenomenon like “culture clash”. It’s a specific project of European slavery and colonization.

Not fully accurate. Race is a system of categorization that was invented. The systems of categorization that is used around the world under the term “race” today are all derived from a single system of categorization that traces its roots back to 14th century Portugal and a single author, Gomes de Zurara.

“which races are white”

This is really misleading. Races don’t exist out there. They are categories we invented. White is one of those categories. We don’t put races into racial categories. We don’t put some races in the white category. We put people in the racial categories. Race is ONLY the category. There’s no other reality to it other than the choice to categorize.

It’s not a hang up. It’s a tool. It was created in Portugal and adopted by the Catholic Church and spread across the colonies because it was an effective tool for dividing the poor and working class against itself by creating privilege for whites and harm for the non-whites. It got baked into every structure in colonial society over centuries.

It’s not a psychological problem. It’s a structural power problem. It will ultimately only end when the colonial states are dismantled by a rainbow coalition and new structures are built from healthier foundations.

Racial categorization (a.k.a. race) is defined by a system, so the answer to your question is always relative to the system you are referring to. In the USA today, there are exactly 5 racial categories: white, black, Asian, Native American/Alaskan Native, Pacific Islander/Hawaiian Native.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_and_ethnicity_in_the_United_States

There was a time when there were three racial categories. Other systems have other categories.

In your example, under today’s rules in the USA and indeed under most systems of racial categorization, someone with Swedish and English parentage would be categorized under the white racial category and be of mixed ethnicity.

Nope. Think of it like a trolley problem.

86 year old AND 2 subsequent generations of his bloodline - his daughter and his granddaughter