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Topic	''Baizuo'' is the new Chinese word for "white leftists"
Mal_Fet 01/11/18 3:44:58 PM #1:	https://www.opendemocracy.net/digitaliberties/chenchen-zhang/curious-rise-of-white-left-as-chinese-internet-insult https://cdn.opendemocracy.net/files/imagecache/article_xlarge/wysiwyg_imageupload/549501/140068806_b8cac11154_z.jpg So what does white left mean in the Chinese context, and whats behind the rise of its (negative) popularity? It might not be an easy task to define the term, for as a social media buzzword and very often an instrument for ad hominem attack, it could mean different things for different people. A thread on why well-educated elites in the west are seen as nave white left in China on Zhihu, a question-and-answer website said to have a high percentage of active users who are professionals and intellectuals, might serve as a starting point. The question has received more than 400 answers from Zhihu users, which include some of the most representative perceptions of the 'white left'. Although the emphasis varies, baizuo is used generally to describe those who only care about topics such as immigration, minorities, LGBT and the environment and have no sense of real problems in the real world; they are hypocritical humanitarians who advocate for peace and equality only to satisfy their own feeling of moral superiority; they are obsessed with political correctness to the extent that they tolerate backwards Islamic values for the sake of multiculturalism; they believe in the welfare state that benefits only the idle and the free riders; they are the ignorant and arrogant westerners who pity the rest of the world and think they are saviours. Wow. I know how easy it is to think of the Chinese as being somehow apart from our politics, but it's amazing how apt their understanding of leftism is --- Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. -George Orwell <cite>Mal_Fet posted [p:893850462] in ''Baizuo''... [t:76190704]...</cite> <quote>https://www.opendemocracy.net/digitaliberties/chenchen-zhang/curious-rise-of-white-left-as-chinese-internet-insult https://cdn.opendemocracy.net/files/imagecache/article_xlarge/wysiwyg_imageupload/549501/140068806_b8cac11154_z.jpg <quote>So what does white left mean in the Chinese context, and whats behind the rise of its (negative) popularity? It might not be an easy task to define the term, for as a social media buzzword and very often an instrument for ad hominem attack, it could mean different things for different people. A thread on why well-educated elites in the west are seen as nave white left in China on Zhihu, a question-and-answer website said to have a high percentage of active users who are professionals and intellectuals, might serve as a starting point. The question has received more than 400 answers from Zhihu users, which include some of the most representative perceptions of the 'white left'. Although the emphasis varies, baizuo is used generally to describe those who only care about topics such as immigration, minorities, LGBT and the environment and have no sense of real problems in the real world; they are hypocritical humanitarians who advocate for peace and equality only to satisfy their own feeling of moral superiority; they are obsessed with political correctness to the extent that they tolerate backwards Islamic values for the sake of multiculturalism; they believe in the welfare state that benefits only the idle and the free riders; they are the ignorant and arrogant westerners who pity the rest of the world and think they are saviours. </quote> Wow. I know how easy it is to think of the Chinese as being somehow apart from our politics, but it's amazing how apt their understanding of leftism is --- Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. -George Orwell</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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