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Here is a bit of insight on how the rest of the world, even those in Communist China, a rather Leftist country, view American Lefties:
https://www.opendemocracy.net/digit...rise-of-white-left-as-chinese-internet-insult
Well, they certain seem to have an indepth understanding of what the American Left has become Post-Obama.
The article outlines how pursuit of a sense of Moral Superiority seems to drive the America Left, who are obsessed with Race and Gender Identity Politics, to the point of ignoring all of the truly important real world problems.
The criticism from the Chinese Cummunist Left is primary center on how the American Left is primarily motivated by a need to see themselves as morally superior, rather than actually focusing on the core beliefs of a socialist/collectivist doctrine.
Questions for debate:
Did you know that Chinese Leftists held American Leftists in such contempt?
Has this been the opinion of the Chinese Left for a long time, or is this a new viewpoint, Post-Obama/Hillary?
If they American Left were more focuses on what the Chinese Left see as the real problems in the world/society, would the American Left have more political success?
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https://www.opendemocracy.net/digit...rise-of-white-left-as-chinese-internet-insult
The curious rise of the ‘white left’ as a Chinese internet insult
Chenchen Zhang 11 May 2017
If you look at any thread about Trump, Islam or immigration on a Chinese social media platform these days, it’s impossible to avoid encountering the term baizuo (白左), or literally, the ‘white left’. It first emerged about two years ago, and yet has quickly become one of the most popular derogatory descriptions for Chinese netizens to discredit their opponents in online debates.
(Internet cafe, Beijing)
So what does ‘white left’ mean in the Chinese context, and what’s 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 naïve “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”.
Apart from some anti-hegemonic sentiments, the connotations of ‘white left’ in the Chinese context clearly resemble terms such as ‘regressive liberals’ or ‘libtards’ in the United States. In a way the demonization of the ‘white left’ in Chinese social media may also reflect the resurgence of right-wing populism globally.
However, Chinese netizens’ fierce attacks against the ‘white left’ seem curiously devoid of experiential motivation, since...
Well, they certain seem to have an indepth understanding of what the American Left has become Post-Obama.
The article outlines how pursuit of a sense of Moral Superiority seems to drive the America Left, who are obsessed with Race and Gender Identity Politics, to the point of ignoring all of the truly important real world problems.
The criticism from the Chinese Cummunist Left is primary center on how the American Left is primarily motivated by a need to see themselves as morally superior, rather than actually focusing on the core beliefs of a socialist/collectivist doctrine.
Questions for debate:
Did you know that Chinese Leftists held American Leftists in such contempt?
Has this been the opinion of the Chinese Left for a long time, or is this a new viewpoint, Post-Obama/Hillary?
If they American Left were more focuses on what the Chinese Left see as the real problems in the world/society, would the American Left have more political success?
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