A lot of the xinnie the pooh edits are racial caricature, ironically enough (skin tone)

I'd be more worried about the savvy propagandists. Idiots in that thread can't even comprehend the perspectives your students would have from actually living in the PRC, so there will most likely just be a communication breakdown.

BuGiJu was doing a great job of contributing constructively from what I remember. Absolute bullshit on the mods' part. StalinsMoustache was correct but a bit low-effort and antagonistic, so it was to be expected (though I obviously don't support it).

At least it was only two days for the former, but still bullshit

There's a very conscious effort from the radlib cliques to close off lemmygrad

He shares a handful of views, but overwhelmingly is a psychotic cult leader and social chauvinist. You are unlikely to get anything but uniform hatred towards him here.

Łumało

Is this a transliteration of "wumao"?

How is that hate speech? Saying you hate an admin team is not hate speech

How are they leaning towards tone policing?

The rules lean towards "civility" over the actual content of what is said, which left it vulnerable to "just asking questions" types. It's being revised after a spat with a TERF who took advantage of those rules.

A lot of those insinuations come from neoliberals who are mad that neoliberalism isn't given privileged treatment there like it is on Reddit.

Wow, that's pretty pathetic

It might be interesting to start a conversation on the appropriate comm there about whichever rule is being enforced (check the modlog) and challenge the rule.

That's hard to say, since the meme began in China, but the widespread adoption in the US probably was connected to racist appeal

Your reading comprehension isn't great. The problem isn't that this woman is a prostitute, it's that it's normalizing the framing of "these men at war need access to sex," which if you think about it for even a few seconds should raise red flags. If it is a "need," then it is "necessary" to a war effort that it is accounted for, and suddenly you see the implication of a military prostitution industry, the existence of which would be a threat rather than a boon to impoverished women because, for this industry to be supplied, the powers that be will be sure there's a minimum number of people who are desperate enough to sign up or else a good enough PR covering for what is actually slavery (such as corner cases of, to pick a totally random example, some woman flying halfway around the world to prostitute herself for free).

Incidentally, this is a great argument to China that they shouldn't back down.

I think too many people get caught up on a consumer-identity mode of relating to these things. It's way more useful to have good fundamental understanding. For very early socialism, Engels provides an excellent summary in Socialism: Utopian and Scientific, since the bulk of pre-Marxist philosophers were put by Marx and Engels in the "utopian" category. Text. Audiobook.

While I think Conquest of Bread is probably worth looking at for an economic skeptic of the idea of a classless, moneyless society, generally it seems to me to be the best strategy to prioritize looking at works that were associated with actual projects of socialist states, and the first person to lead such an endeavor that made it to the "actual nation-building" stage was Lenin.

Of course, I don’t feel comfortable actively dissuading the students from going (they get enough pressure from parents and other staff at the school), but sometimes I wonder if I should.

It might be worth just mentioning about your perspective on the racism issue, but you're right to avoid adding pressure.

Thank you for letting me know. I always forget about that because I can see their replies. In any case, I'm more worried about what the people on lemmy.world think, since Beehaw has basically become a purpose-built engine of sectarianism, so the content of those replies would be a foregone conclusion.

I'll try to remember to use my lemmy.ml account in the future for this.

There were also neoliberals in there, on all the same subs as the anarcho-bidenists and arguing parallel to them as long as the anarcho-bidenists didn't ever mention a positive alternative. Really makes you think.

I wouldn't go that far. Intelligence is still a physical phenomenon produced by highly complex and somewhat varied systems. There's going to be different levels of intelligence, like there are different levels of empathy, of strength, of immunity, and so on. Strong evidence would be needed to counter this. That doesn't mean people don't exaggerate these differences, look at them too uncritically, or misunderstand both what they are and their origins (which are mostly in child-rearing).

What is more likely bullshit is the concept of "general intelligence" or "G", which is basically an illusion of statistical question-begging that has been very useful to phrenologists and basically no one else.

I don't think reunified Germany has even caught up with East Germany on trans rights, though I don't follow it that closely.