Jesus, really? Why does AbeBooks even still exist at all then? Just to suck up suckers (like me) who occasionally remembers it exists and thinks they may be slightly less evil?

“Cuck,” as an abbreviation of the archaic word cuckold was popularized by racist misogynists who were against, take your pick, a black president, the possibility of a female president, or politically correct culture for no other critical reason beyond being afraid of these things stepping on their fascist toes.

Before that it was archaic in exactly the same way as words like “ejaculate” or “intercourse” are–only used to explicitly talk about the sex acts they were originally euphemisms for.

By definition cuck has all kinds of baggage to it. But all of that baggage is on the part of the idiot who would non-ironically use it. I can’t think of another slur that so exquisitely reveals the psychosexual insecurity of the kind of person who would wield it, while at the same time having absolutely no power of any kind over the word’s intended audience.

Are you on Android or iPhone?

Please also note this is actually a trick question to figure out if you are a true leftist.

Guangzhou has a very visible African minority population, probably the largest of any mainland city. China like the rest of Asia is super colorist, and there’s a lot of inter-ethnic developing world one-upmanship that goes on. So yes, many Han Chinese people are uncriticly racist–but not to the same systemic level in any way towards black people as what we see in the US. Anecdotally, black people often have wildly different experiences travelling in China, and often have the feeling of being treated more as a foreigner than as a black person, if you get what I mean.

Not enough crying statue of liberties for my tastes.

Not there enough for me.

(I actually didn’t see it the first time on my phone, thank you for correcting my egregious oversight comrade)

It’s kind of funny that when g*mers say videogames are art they mostly mean they can post a screenshot of a landscape that resembles a Thomas Kinkade painting and then talk about how beautiful it is.

Everything written here about how 90% of American “facts” concerning Uighurs in Xinjiang are derived from the inductive reasoning of a Christian evangelical in non-peer reviewed articles is completely true.

That said, I don’t see anything written here about the long history of the region which is now Xinjiang as a state or territory. The fact that nothing anyone has posted here discusses that long history demonstrates an inadequecy of analysis of historical conditions. It leads people to say things like, “Uh, a CIA did it” and move on as if everything is now resolved.

I recently listened to an episode of the Historic.ly podcast with Carl Zha, who I think is quite well informed on Chinese history but interprets that history in ways very different than me. In about five minutes he said 1) Xinjiang has always been part of China – 5000 years of Chinese history! 2) Xinjiang became part of China in the Qing dynasty – ~350 years of Chinese history! 3) Xinjiang has had ethnic separatist movements and has declared itself an independent state separate from Chinese rule numerous times in those last 350 years (as recently as the mid-20th century with Soviet backing). To summarize, Xinjiang has always been part of China, so long as “China” only begins with the Qing, and except for all of those times when it wasn’t.

To not see any contradiction in these statements is to not be able to see the region and ethnic conflicts as a whole in mainland China through any other lens but Chinese state orthodoxy. To not question why Xinjiang today is part of China while also not questioning why Mongolia today isn’t part of China is to just be caught in the currents of US and Chinese state propaganda with no critical awareness or historical analysis.

Don’t forget Capitalism With Chinese Characteristics, ie the operating system Huawei is developing.

We have an algorithm now?