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I doodled you and Morrigan chillin'

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Benjamin Ultrakill Propaganda Poster

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I don't know if anybody has submitted anything about the Social Credits meme, but the Social Credits meme from a few years ago, with the Bing Chilling thing.

The Bing chilling meme seemed a mockery of John Cena trying to speak a different language and participate in a culture he is not from. The foreground of that joke of that was the masculine white guy being “cross-cultural”, the background is a mockery of the Chinese language as something foreign. While Chinese-ness is rightfully distant from whiteness, it being portrayed in a perjorative way and alien or ridiculous, where the punchline is “being Chinese”, is Orientalism and is Sinophobic.

I do know Chinese people use it although the context is different (mocking the white man for trying to participate in our culture).

But as we can’t ascertain the motives of non-Chinese people who do use it, it often comes off as malicious, ignorant and Sinophobic at its root.

The Social Credits meme is a misunderstanding (/intentional mockery) of the Chinese system. It is further explained in this article, but so far I’ve just quoted the relevant parts on the Sinophobia and Orientalism surrounding China, the Chinese government and Chinese culture.

These systems are partly the source of some myths about the social credit system, including a widely-shared graphic that depicts a point-based digital control system used to police citizens in every sphere of society.

Most initiatives under the social credit system do not involve actual scores, the exception being the “trustworthiness score” programs launched by some cities and communities. With names like “osmanthus score,” “jasmine score,” and “seashell score,” these programs are mostly designed to promote so-called good deeds. In Rongcheng, a city that made international headlines as a social credit laboratory, citizens get 1,000 points to begin with. They can lose points over offenses such as tax-evasion, and can earn points by doing volunteer work, donating money, or simply handing in cash they happen to find on the street. Other places have also allowed people to earn points by cleaning up public spaces or taking care of the elderly.

There’s the long-standing techno-orientalism in Euro-American popular culture, where Asia is imagined as futuristic and technologically advanced.

Chenchen Zhang, a political scientist at Queen’s University Belfast who has studied China’s social credit system, said the social credit meme, which falsely uses social credit as a shorthand for all sorts of control, shows the difference in the perception of China between people inside and outside of the country is further widening.

“There’s the long-standing techno-orientalism in Euro-American popular culture, where Asia is imagined as futuristic and technologically advanced,” Zhang said. “Then China being the authoritarian other of Western liberal democracy and at the same time a rising tech superpower fits perfectly with the image that there’s a tech driven, all-encompassing scoring system to control every individual citizen in the country.”

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Me and bro bing chilling

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