On the heels of TikTok's looming shutdown on January 19 over its ownership in the U.S. (unless the Supreme Court intervenes), it looks like another American users are flocking to a Chinese app called Xiaohongshu as people become less optimistic that TikTok can overturn U.S. ban.
What I find crazy is the number of “leftists” screaming about this being a bad thing because they “don’t want Americans on their app.” This is less an issue here but I’ve seen it on less moderated forums.
I have to feel suspect of a lot of these people because if you are true leftist you would realize how good this can be towards shifting the American views of China to the positive. Like the number of U.S. users moving there is a drop on the bucket to how many Chinese are already there. Are they really so fearful they will be overrun? Or are they bad faith actors trying to make leftist think this is a bad thing and to attack the newcomers to prevent them from learning anything outside the western sphere?
Sure, some people might be genuine and be disgruntled by the influx of US users, but they should understand that this is an amazing opportunity to really start to radicalize these new users and really open their eyes. If after that they are still against them maybe they need to do a self evaluation and decide if they really care about building communism.
So if you see posts saying these migrations of western users to Chinese apps is bad, call that shit out. It may be a mild inconvenience at first, but the potential to grow a real understanding in the west to the truth about China and the rest of the world is massive.
What I find crazy is the number of “leftists” screaming about this being a bad thing because they “don’t want Americans on their app.” This is less an issue here but I’ve seen it on less moderated forums.
I have to feel suspect of a lot of these people because if you are true leftist you would realize how good this can be towards shifting the American views of China to the positive. Like the number of U.S. users moving there is a drop on the bucket to how many Chinese are already there. Are they really so fearful they will be overrun? Or are they bad faith actors trying to make leftist think this is a bad thing and to attack the newcomers to prevent them from learning anything outside the western sphere?
Sure, some people might be genuine and be disgruntled by the influx of US users, but they should understand that this is an amazing opportunity to really start to radicalize these new users and really open their eyes. If after that they are still against them maybe they need to do a self evaluation and decide if they really care about building communism.
So if you see posts saying these migrations of western users to Chinese apps is bad, call that shit out. It may be a mild inconvenience at first, but the potential to grow a real understanding in the west to the truth about China and the rest of the world is massive.