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TikTok people moving to Xiaohongshu and learning that the Chinese aren't evil monsters is warming my heart. (hexbear.net)

submitted 22 hours ago by Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net to c/chat@hexbear.net

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Seriously who could have guessed? Sure it might not amount to much but even the fact that people are learning that what the US has been teaching it's people about China has been mostly lies is amazing.

There is no way in hell this could have ever happened even when I was a kid. People were simply too racist. They still are, but the fact that even the slight reduction in racism we have in modern day is enough that Chinese people and Westerners are coming together and being cool with each other online is nothing short of a miracle.

No wonder the US hegemony hates teaching it's people foreign languages, no wonder it encourages xenophobia, that barrier was so powerful in keeping people from learning first hand what Americas "enemies" are really like.

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[–] bbnh69420@hexbear.net 50 points 20 hours ago (5 children)

The worst non-horny content is the fucking “booktok” exodus, I guess I’m glad yall are reading but good god is it all YA fantasy???

[–] commiecapybara@hexbear.net 5 points 5 hours ago

You wish for people to "read ANYTHING other than Harry Potter".

Another finger on the Monkey's Paw curls inward.

[–] TrashGoblin@hexbear.net 7 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

If "booktok" is non-horny content to you, we are... not seeing the same booktok. Mine is all faerie porn and Mafia romance.

[–] bbnh69420@hexbear.net 2 points 5 hours ago

I guess by non-horny I mean not sexually harassing Chinese women

[–] gay_king_prince_charles@hexbear.net 3 points 9 hours ago

I've seen people shilling 48 Laws of Power already

[–] MolotovHalfEmpty@hexbear.net 4 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

Is there a hashtag or whatever for that? I've got a day off at the end of this week and was going to read Brigitte Reimann's 'Siblings' so I could probably post about that as a homeopathic amount of antidote.

[–] comrade_pibb@hexbear.net 32 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

these dweebs are voraciously taking brando sanderson international

[–] bbnh69420@hexbear.net 28 points 19 hours ago

Swear to fucking god