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    1 year ago

    As excellent as this article is, I’ve had multiple conversations with Captaincool07, and I think comrades should know that he is unfortunately a Han supremacist. I hate using that term since it sounds like its giving credit to liberals, but he really is. He thinks the CPC is more of a nationalist party than a socialist one, and he thinks Vladimir Putin is a “radical centrist”, and that China’s success is more due to nationalism than socialism, and he once said that he thinks that China should return to controlling 25-40 percent of the entire world’s economy, rather than a multipolar one.

    He’s also vehemently homophobic and thinks that Mao’s socialism “went too far”.

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      1 year ago

      You can just call him a nationalist or a patsoc. The rhetoric he espouses isn’t any different from Chinese nationalists of other ethnicities, and from his videos it’s clear he cares about preserving minority culture/ is proud of its preservation. The few “Han nationalists” that exist live in the US or Taiwan and have a intense hatred for the mainland/the CPC and tend to be very pro-US (they both share the goal of a balkanizing China based off of ethnicity).

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        I gotta heavily disagree with the idea of him being no different than any other nationalists.

        He’s said before that only the Han Chinese are “smart” enough to have a successful country as China, and he believes that “full communism” is just as bad as full capitalism. I will admit maybe his views have changed and I could be wrong, and he’s definitely not pro US. But he is/was very homophobic, and the bad kind of nationalist.

        There are a noticeable amount of Han chauvanists in China as well. The CPC and most of the Chinese population don’t agree with them though, thankfully.