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[–] Jabril@hexbear.net 54 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

I think her whole thing is making clickbait titles and then the videos are positive of China. She also did an interesting one about the secret homeless populations of Japan.

edit: After watching the video, it seems like she is a pro capitalist lib irl, and the video is very balanced with providing examples that make China look much better to her Western audience than any other 1 million + follower content creators, but there is always an undertone of "but China is authoritarian."

She talked about doing a paper, in her Chinese language foreign relations master's degree level class, on "how China has a bad view of Japan," and then implied that when she got points deducted the teacher's reasoning of "the sources not being valid" were actually because you just shouldn't talk about that topic because it is taboo in China. There was no mention of, I don't know, the 22 million Chinese people brutally killed by Japan or even Japanese colonialism in general. She also is married to a Japanese guy and lives in Japan now fwiw. It is strange to me that the implication is that her sources must be valid so the teacher is wrong, instead of maybe her bias towards American and Japanese narratives meaning that she is picking and chooses authors who have those same biases and are not accurate, even if they are upheld by 5 eyes academic systems.

She also talked about mentioning to "Tienanmen Massacre" in a presentation and seeing some students visibly shudder because, she assumes, they had never heard to it referred that way before. I feel like there is a subtext here that is "it was a massacre and they are not allowed to know that," but she was using it as an example of how it was actually not a problem to bring up this topic and discuss it which dispels the common myth that it is like, an erased history that is forbidden to be discussed. the vibe is that she is informing the students of something true that they didn't know about before because of Chinese information control.

Another weird one was in a debate, she argued in favor of free markets dictating the economy because they were more efficient and the other student froze up, the professor asked the student how they were going to respond and they said they didn't know how. This, she surmised, was because they had never heard of these ideas of free market capitalism before, and so the student couldn't have been prepared to respond. She at least says "like we are in America in the opposite way," and generally holds this both sides tone, which is I guess the best you can expect for someone with a large following.

Still, it is frustrating that someone who has grifted so hard off China and Chinese culture for a decade is still so american brained.

[–] BurgerPunk@hexbear.net 15 points 7 months ago

Another weird one was in a debate, she argued in favor of free markets dictating the economy because they were more efficient and the other student froze up, the professor asked the student how they were going to respond and they said they didn't know how.

I feel for them. I mean where do you even start with a position that dumb? Its like not knowing what to say in a debate with Jordan Peterson when he's five minutes deep in a rabbit hole about dragon's a biologically real because fire and lions are both predators.

[–] LaughingLion@hexbear.net 13 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

the students didnt shudder they cringed because chinese people aren't shielded from tiananmen square they are taught about it

also that debate probably just caught the chinese student off gaurd. obviously the response to that is that is a market created efficiency through competition then how can non-competitive supply chains completely insular to major corporations like walmart be so efficient? they are are completely shielded from the usual market forces and are, de facto, a form of planned economy on a smaller scale. i doubt your average chinese debater has read "the peoples republic of walmart"

[–] RedWizard@hexbear.net 35 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The video I hear is actually positive on China.

[–] Verenata@hexbear.net 32 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Oh really? Like click bait title gotcha libs here's a normal take grounded in reality?

Still with a name like oriental pearl catgirl-disgust

[–] RedWizard@hexbear.net 18 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yeah the name is sus for sure but that's what the reddit comments where saying. I'm here for click baiting the libs.

[–] Verenata@hexbear.net 15 points 7 months ago

Yeah nothing funnier chefs-kiss

[–] TheBroodian@hexbear.net 18 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Pearl Davis has done to the name 'Pearl' what Hitler did to pushbroom mustaches

[–] Llituro@hexbear.net 36 points 7 months ago (1 children)

You're not wrong, but I'm pretty sure the problem is using "oriental" in 2024 champ

[–] Verenata@hexbear.net 11 points 7 months ago

I'm just thinking of the whale from spongebob now.

[–] Are_Euclidding_Me@hexbear.net 24 points 7 months ago (2 children)

That thumbnail is also incredibly lazy AI. Good lord. I never thought I'd miss the days of lazy photoshops as much as I do, but boy do I!

[–] Rom@hexbear.net 19 points 7 months ago

wdym it's common knowledge that Chinese people don't have legs

[–] AmericaDelendaEst@hexbear.net 6 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

I don't think it's AI i think it's just a lazy and racist photoshop

like the straight lines where the two students in front have been inserted in

[–] PointAndClique@hexbear.net 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The row of students in Japanese seifuku have no discernable features on their face

[–] AmericaDelendaEst@hexbear.net 2 points 7 months ago

it looks to me like they took a really low rez image and enlarged it and then pasted it over an empty classroom

[–] GnastyGnuts@hexbear.net 17 points 7 months ago

Occidental Amy: How I Survived Cracker-fication in America's Top University (being able to read above a sixth grade level)

[–] jaywalker@hexbear.net 12 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Can someone elaborate on what's wrong with the name? There's a building in Shanghai called the Oriental Pearl

[–] CutieBootieTootie@hexbear.net 26 points 7 months ago

White people using the term "Orient" or "Oriental" goes back to colonialism and imperialism in Asia and often represents simplified racist narratives of non-Occidental cultures which are demeaning and derogatory. There may be some name remnants within Asia or MENA that reference these terms but they're historical leftovers of this brutal age of colonialism these regions endured. For more information, Google Orientalism and it's consequences.

[–] Belly_Beanis@hexbear.net 10 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I hope they bullied the shit out of her. Show her why there's a firewall.

[–] spectre@hexbear.net 6 points 7 months ago

They didn't cause it's all engagement bait and not real

[–] Bartsbigbugbag@lemmy.ml 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

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