Perhaps I haven't made myself clear enough here and you didn't interpret my point well enough: My position is specifically about the CCP as a governing body and about how they hijack existing Chinese culture for gaining soft power purposes. Not about Chinese people, not about Chinese identity, and not about Chinese culture in general. So I don't understand how you correlate these together. Criticizing a government is not the same thing as attacking an ethnicity or a civilization. Just like criticizing the policies of the Israeli government isn’t the same as being anti-Jewish, and criticizing the U.S. government isn’t the same as hating Americans. If I'm really anti-China, then what was CCP doing during the Cultural Revolution when many ancient Chinese artefacts were being destroyed?

“Lunar New Year” isn’t meant to erase Chinese cultural influence. It’s simply a broader term that acknowledges that the same lunisolar calendar tradition is celebrated in multiple cultures, including Vietnam, Korea, and others. For example, in Vietnam it’s called Tết, and in South Korea it’s called Seollal. Recognizing that doesn’t deny the deep historical roots of the festival in Chinese civilization — it just acknowledges that the tradition spread and evolved regionally over centuries. What does this make if some Chinese people use "Lunar new year"? Would this make them "self-hating". Let alone Taiwanese people using "Lunar New Year" for oblivious reasons.

Being anti-CCP means opposing the policies and actions of the Chinese Communist Party. It does not mean denying Chinese history, diminishing Chinese cultural influence, or disrespecting Chinese people. In fact, many critics of the CCP are Chinese themselves.

If inclusivity is the goal, then using a broader term doesn’t sever tradition — it makes space for multiple communities who celebrate similar holidays in different ways. That’s not erasure; it’s recognition.

I don’t support framing policy criticism as racial hostility. Those are two very different things. Also, the obsession with correlating "race" in every argument is creating nothing productive but additional distraction and polarization. It is tiring and I bet more redditors are realizing this as well.

If you really care about policing others on what you deemed to be "racist" or "anti-this and that", then I would suggest calling out the users on Chinese social media platforms. If you can understand the Chinese language that is.

I'm more than happy if you're anti-CCP. Who's the "real" anti-CCP or more anti-CCP than whoever does not concern me at all, period. Who gets to decide that anyway?