• SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca
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    21 hours ago

    Democracy in China is very alive and well, contrary to Western public opinion.

    Bullshit. Xi Jinpeng is President for life now. There is Chinese Democracy I suppose… in Taiwan. Which is under threat by Xi, just as there was democracy in Hong Kong before Xi snuffed that out.

    Also the Nazis valued racial homogeneity, did that result in more democracy and freedoms?

    You’re trying to make the facts fit a racist narrative. The reality is that cultural changes result from living in a free society. The culture doesn’t change in the same way in all places. The only way to have homogeneity is under an authoritative regime that forces people to all live the same lives. That isn’t freedom.

    FFS there has been two languages in Canada for it’s entire existence. We’ve never been homogenous.

    • ProudCanadianCitizen@lemmy.ca
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      You are trying to make my comments fit your racist narrative. It is obvious from your comments that you are anti-Chinese. You denigrate their entire culture and society in your blanket statements over the form of government they chose. It is very evident that you consider them not smart enough to determine their own destination and that only the White West has the intelligence to create a ‘proper’ government for them, that only the White West has the ability to form a ‘free society’. The Chinese peoples themselves have collectively and of their own free will decided on the governance system they want, and Xi has their overwhelming collective support and backing. But according to you those poor misguided inferior Chinese need the White West to determine what the Chinese want for themselves, and to force the White ideals onto the backwards Chinese. Oh, wait, that DID happen to the Chinese during the opium wars. Mao completely undid that bondage to Whites, and the Whites have never forgiven him for freeing the Chinese from White oppression. Taiwan is nothing more than the last vestiges of this colonialism.

      Incidentally, recent polls in Taiwan indicate that as the evidence for the success of the mainland Chinese government become evident in improving the lifestyle of the Chinese, the illusion of the benefits of so-called ‘democracy’ in Taiwan is losing its luster . https://www.taiwanplus.com/news/taiwan-news/taiwan-china-relations/260616005/poll-finds-smaller-majority-opposing-beijings-one-china-principle

      And I never claimed that homogeneity would lead to democracy, but that perhaps democracy could only function in a homogeneous society. They are not the same statement. Stop twisting my words to fit your narrative. There are far more countries tending towards homogeneity in the world than there are multicultural, with a mix of democratic vs autocratic governments among them. Iran vs Iraq, for instance.