Virtue SignalingMeet your masters (the queer colonists) - The Critic Magazine

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[–]julesburm1891 17 insightful - 1 fun17 insightful - 0 fun18 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I think a lot about how China has the USA by the economic balls, Russia is poised to invade Ukraine, Iran is going nuclear, the supply chain and climate are falling apart, and we in the West are doing this shit with our time and resources.

[–][deleted] 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Well we will know in two decades but both China and Russia have about as many issues as a lot of Western nations if not more. They both face a Demographic collapse they can't fix because they are too xenophobic, China has water problems, movements like BRI might over extend state resources, growth likely will slow before they uplift everyone's standard of living, big gap between wealthy and poor, firewall/restrictions inhibits innovation and cultural soft power

Though yeah don't worry some of our future problems like Global Warming should end all of this. We will have more serious problems and our children's children will just look at this period of history as a decadent golden age before life actually got hard.

[–]MarkJeffersonTight defenses and we draw the line 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

And on the topic of China's water problems; It makes it so they can't at all exploit their tantalizingly large shale gas reserves in the North West of the country, which would go a long way toward alleviating their current pollution/energy crisis. Their Sichuan province gas reserves can't easily be tapped either because doing so can cause tremors in a highly populated region that is especially vulnerable to earthquakes, has suffered much from seismic activity in the past and whose locals have been kicking up a storm lately about fracking effects. These difficulties are mitigated somewhat by their relative lack of environmental red tape compared to Western countries, which can speed up the green-lighting and progress of any extraction projects. But for a number of reasons, they'll be mostly stuck with dirty coal for the foreseeable future when it comes to energy and a domestic source of hydrocarbons; With hydro and nuclear assisting with the electricity generation side of the equation.

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firewall/restrictions inhibits innovation and cultural soft power

China's cultural soft power is complete garbage. Any contemporary Chinese art I like eventually turns out to be Taiwanese/Hong Kong. I guess you can't suppress one aspect of your citizens lives without indirectly suppressing the whole. Stifle speech and independent thinking and it drags down their creativity too. Their mega-conglomerates can buy up all the foreign entertainment studios they want, but then the prime movers of the industry will still have to be imported. And they're not willing to take the risk of loosening their grip long enough to allow more far-reaching imaginative endeavors. A real shame.

[–]NutterButterFlutterStill waving into the void 14 insightful - 1 fun14 insightful - 0 fun15 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The sarcasm in parts of the article gave me a good laugh.

It has the aesthetic appeal of a faeces-smeared prison cell, though without the intellectual depth.
Forget the generation of gay men wiped out by AIDS, or the lesbians whose children were taken — to the brave queers of Oxford, the sticker war is real and raging.
“98 per cent of University of Oxford trans students have mental health problems”. Looking at the unhinged scribbles covering a sizeable portion of the exhibition, this does not come as a surprise.

Also, archive: https://archive.ph/cuDg5

[–]reluctant_commenter 12 insightful - 1 fun12 insightful - 0 fun13 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Visitors are reminded throughout of the deeply oppressed people who live among us: a group apparently known as “the queers”.

Not me, thanks. Let's drop the Q, please. And add back the real Q, for those who need it: "questioning".

A plaque informs the curious that a 2018 report by the Student Union LGBTQ+ campaign found that “98 per cent of University of Oxford trans students have mental health problems”. Looking at the unhinged scribbles covering a sizeable portion of the exhibition, this does not come as a surprise.

Lul.

“My cuddly gosling comes with me when I feel vulnerable, and keeps me safe from my own criticism. When I came to Oxford as a queer working-class person, I experienced a chasm of identity separating me from others.”

I like to think that my differences from the people around me are a source of interesting conversation and provide a chance for me to consider new perspectives.

edit: I love this article so much, lol:

The presumed white-cis-heteronormative scum visiting are then treated to some nuggets of wisdom about the experience of trans people of colour who “come under closer scrutiny than their white siblings” and therefore “may not receive social validation of their gender or transness”. Mystifyingly, the exhibit accompanying this text is a Beastie Boys band t-shirt with a “Happy Birthday” badge. The uneducated are further informed that for the queer-identified “the greatest freedom of expression” can come from “non-gendered items” like “hair dye or tattoos” — doing little to assuage the suspicion that identifying as queer might be a fashion for the over-privileged and under-occupied.

Oh, I just realized Jo Bartosch wrote this article. No wonder it's so good. :)