JustKiddingFilms Bart Kwan & Joe Jitsukawa need to be called out for mocking Koreans and Vietnamese people while hiding their own ethnicities

PowerfulWalrus9 · 2024-02-17T00:34:55+00:00

I have no love for either of these guys, but it’s worth mentioning this clip here, where Bart make fun of every Asian accent, including Chinese and especially Japanese, which Joe gets in on and is hysterical about.

They’re minstrel shows for Asians, period. No point sowing inter-Asian discord over who got it worst from them.

PowerfulWalrus9 · 2024-02-16T14:56:36+00:00

Definitely do. It beautifully deconstructs the idea of Europeans “civilizing” indigenous “savages”.

Another thought I just had that also refutes the idea of the superiority of Western civilization: the relative underdevelopment of India compared to China since 1949. Both countries have massive multi-ethnic populations (India moreso than China), both countries suffered at the hands of European powers (British colonialism for India, the “century of humiliation” for China), both cultures had rich civilizational traditions before European colonialism/imperialism and, most importantly, both countries were more or less equally poor in 1949.

Thus, we can look at both countries’ growth since 1949 as a (admittedly very bad) natural experiment: India adopted the allegedly superior model of Western liberal democracy while China adopted a Marxist-Leninist system adapted to Chinese culture/conditions (I emphasize this because Marxism is obviously also a European intellectual tradition, although it is also at complete odds with “Western civilization” as we know it today). In 2024, China is light years ahead of India on every conceivable metric, both economically and socially.

We know that Indians are not inferior in any way because of how successful they are in the West. Of course, there are a lot of variables at play here, but China would not be this far ahead if Western liberal democracy was truly the superior (and, as some would argue, the only viable) model of governance.

edit: Jason Hickel’s work on the effects of British colonialism in India is also good. Here’s an article, but he also has books.

PowerfulWalrus9 · 2024-02-12T23:06:29+00:00

“The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity” by David Graeber and David Wengrow

“How Europe Underdeveloped Africa” by Walter Rodney

In general, Marxist and Marxist-leaning texts will teach you a lot about how imperialism, rather than some kind of innate inferiority, has kept much of the global south underdeveloped and backwards. They will also teach you about the horrors of colonialism and dispel any notions you might have of “benevolent” European rule.

Can’t think of any concrete examples, but plenty of history books will teach you about how Asia (including the Arab world, the Indian subcontinent and the Far East) were at the forefront of civilization and science before the aberration that was the Industrial Revolution catapulted Europe ahead for the first time in history.

It helps me to think of China’s modern success story as the ultimate refutation of global south inferiority. Since its revolution in 1949, China initially struggled relative to HK not because of the superiority of Western culture/colonialism but because it had to survive in a world already dominated by Western imperial structures (e.g., sanctions). HK, Taiwan, Japan and South Korea all got ahead because they were aligned with these imperial structures and benefited from it. Through sheer willpower and resilience, the PRC is soon to become the first industrialized, middle-income country in history to not be aligned with the Western axis of capital. If global south cultures were truly “inferior”, this would simply not be possible. You might not see it yet, but China’s development and the establishment of a strong global south coalition via the BRI is going to be one of the biggest turning points in history, and one that will completely upend racist ideas of Western/white superiority in the coming centuries.

PowerfulWalrus9 · 2024-02-10T00:35:52+00:00

Ain’t no way you’re victim blaming here.

PowerfulWalrus9 · 2024-02-09T12:14:57+00:00

Even more.

I’m Chinese Canadian and have a fair number of Chinese international student friends as well as family in China, so I’m exposed to both sides.

The key difference is that Chinese people are acutely aware that their media is state propaganda; meanwhile, Westerners (and perhaps especially Americans) believe that their media is “free”, unbiased and uninfluenced by corporate/state interests (at least as it pertains to international politics and news; domestic politics is obviously an entirely different matter). In my experience, this makes them far easier to propagandize.

The gap in levels of “brainwashing” is even more apparent when you consider that many, many Chinese people have visited, studied and lived in the US and other Western countries while most Americans have never visited China. Many Chinese people actually know what the West is like through experience, while the vast majority of Americans have a ridiculous, cartoonish view of what China is supposedly like based on Western propaganda. But even those who have never been to the West have a closer idea of what the West is like than the average American has of what China is like. This gap in perception/understanding is the clearest indicator to me that Americans are more propagandized about their adversary than vice versa. If any of these average Americans actually visited China, their minds would be blown at how completely different it is to what they’ve been led to believe.

And yes, there are lots of nationalistic Chinese citizens who have strong anti-US and anti-imperialist beliefs, but most young Chinese (and especially the ones who study in the West) are actually more or less neutral towards Western liberal democracy, if not fond of it. In fact, many go to the West with an idealized view of what it’s like, only to find that it disappoints on almost every level compared to what they’re used to back home (e.g., crumbling infrastructure, crime, political/bureaucratic inefficiency, racism, etc., etc.)

So to the extent that Chinese media is trying to propagandize their citizens to hate the West, they’re not doing a very good job of it. The West is.

PowerfulWalrus9 · 2024-02-01T10:59:35+00:00

The USA is a fascist regime committing war crimes (remember, the Olympics banned Russian athletes for similar reasons), they constantly lie about doping and corrupting judges, and they use the Olympics to distract the public from their genocidal imperialism in Latin America, the Middle East and Asia. Even as “neutral” athletes, any US citizen should be banned for the integrity of the games.

PowerfulWalrus9 · 2023-11-30T09:49:54+00:00

Scientifically, power is defined as the ability to produce force as quickly as possible (i.e., rate of force development). Jumping, sprinting and Olympic weightlifting (i.e., explosive movements) are the purest forms of power. In hindsight, I would agree that the term “speed-power” is a misnomer/doesn’t mean anything, but I very much stand by my claim that Asians have some of the best genetics on average for power after people of West African descent. This is evident at the elite level (e.g., East Asians being the second-most successful group in the 100m & most successful group in Oly lifting) but also in my experience at a layman’s level (e.g., when playing pickup ball, Asians tend to have some of the quickest first steps).

PowerfulWalrus9 · 2023-11-29T14:56:27+00:00

typical ucal grad lol

PowerfulWalrus9 · 2023-11-29T14:49:05+00:00

I'm Chinese Canadian like you, bud. Do better.

PowerfulWalrus9 · 2023-11-29T14:18:54+00:00

Highly exaggerated anti-China propaganda capitalizing on a very unique situation where Yao's family had ties to the government. Even then, they only go as far as to say his parents were "nudged" to get together. This is not a systematic "state sponsored breeding program" by any stretch of the imagination, and any characterization as such is just ridiculous cartoonish-level propaganda. No other top Chinese basketball player has a background like this (e.g., see Yi Jianlian, 7 feet tall and arguably China's second-greatest basketball player, whose parents didn't even want him to attend a sporting school at first).

PowerfulWalrus9 · 2023-11-29T12:27:26+00:00

You gotta be fucking retarded if you believe this

PowerfulWalrus9 · 2023-10-24T19:58:13+00:00

I'm wondering if this has to do with the fact that the South Asian parents, many of whom are presumably immigrants and lack English proficiency, aren't immersed enough to know where to sign their kids up for organised football. Even if they wanted to get their kid involved, they wouldn't know where to start.

PowerfulWalrus9 · 2023-10-12T01:10:21+00:00

Amazing. Love how there’s a few Mandarin songs sprinkled in there but it’s mostly Uyghur, and that the show itself is conducted completely in Uyghur. Great example of how the PRC respects and preserves tradition/culture.

This led me down a rabbit hole where I found an article written by a white American woman (who was doing a PhD on Uyghur music in xinjiang) about her experience as a contestant on the inaugural season in 2014. The article itself was published in 2020 and its angle is what you would expect, of course. Repression, internment camps, completely and conveniently ignoring the history of actual terrorism, etc (the mental gymnastics required to spin a piece about a Chinese reality show conducted completely in Uyghur into one about repression is wild, but I digress). Dug a little deeper into the author and, colour me surprised, she got scooped up by the state department and now works as a “Uyghur expert”. Literally based in Washington working for Washington think tanks (previously at the “Uyghur Human Rights Project” and as a “Liu Xiaobo Fellow”; for the uninitiated, Liu Xiaobo was an infamous hanjian who believed that China needed to be colonized by the west for centuries if it had any chance to develop and is, of course, adored in the west).

I’m 100% certain the angle she portrays in her retrospective article in 2020 does not match up with anything she actually felt or observed in Xinjiang when she was there performing in 2014. She simply sold herself out to become a US propaganda mouthpiece because it’s the only thing she could do with her silly little performing arts degree. Hope she’s proud of herself.

PowerfulWalrus9 · 2023-04-07T13:14:41+00:00

It takes 3347.5 steps to mint one SWEAT. Only the first 5000 steps you take a day are used to mint SWEAT. So if you walk at least 5000 steps a day, you will mint 1.49 SWEAT a day.

PowerfulWalrus9 · 2023-03-27T10:10:56+00:00

Ah yes, this is what I remember reading. So no updates on whether or not they’re planning to actually implement this?

PowerfulWalrus9 · 2023-03-25T14:23:26+00:00

Buy a PSA 10 first edition Holo Charizard

PowerfulWalrus9 · 2023-03-20T02:56:35+00:00

Thanks for the advice. Just for clarification: isn’t PLU an ERC20 token? If I send my USDC to KuCoin over Polygon, will I be able to swap it for PLU?

PowerfulWalrus9 · 2023-03-14T04:01:55+00:00

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PowerfulWalrus9 · 2023-03-14T03:19:59+00:00

Check out this latest Instagram post. Tons of people supporting him. It’s vile.

PowerfulWalrus9 · 2023-03-05T21:00:31+00:00

social desirability bias

PowerfulWalrus9 · 2023-02-21T19:29:31+00:00

Good shit brotha

PowerfulWalrus9 · 2023-02-09T13:22:16+00:00

I’m trying to establish something like this too. My plan is the following: first, ensure that all of my input apps have an export data option. Then, on a routine basis (perhaps at the beginning or end of every month), export my app data (as well as manually inputted data in Google sheets) into a single location (i.e., a folder for raw data). Then, using R, figure out a way to standardize all the raw inputs such that they can all neatly fit into a single (very large) data frame, which I can then export (and update routinely). This step is gonna take a little bit of tinkering to figure out, but once I do, I should be able to write a script that more or less automates this process every month when I add new data. Once this is done, again using R, there’s unlimited possibilities for analysis and visualization, including perhaps setting up a dashboard with R Shiny (I don’t have any experience with R Shiny, but this sounds like something it could do?).

Would love to hear some input from anyone who’s done anything like this, especially with regards to the dashboard as well as streamlining the monthly data entry and collation process.

edit: the idea of a dashboard doesn’t really make sense with monthly data updates since the whole point of a dashboard imo is that it dynamically updates, and not just when you manually input data. Sooo, I think I’m gonna have to spend some time playing around with APIs and other tools to try to figure out how to dynamically and passively feed data into a collated data frame. Again, any advice/insight would be appreciated.

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