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Karl Barks
Jan 21, 1981

north korean traditional music from the 40s and 50s with the lyrics changed to be about juche is going to sweep the globe

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Fallen Hamprince
Nov 12, 2016

combining easy-to-dance-to beats with lyrics stridently asserting the purity of the Joseon race

Bulgogi Hoagie
Jun 1, 2012

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this is the most galactic xiist take i’ve read this month

https://twitter.com/ajitbirsingh/status/955831000285745153

Fallen Hamprince
Nov 12, 2016

https://twitter.com/ByYourLogic/status/956241758542876674

Frijolero
Jan 24, 2009

by Nyc_Tattoo
China bans hip hop, forms a bilateral trade agreement with Venezuela to import only the finest reggaeton.

R. Guyovich
Dec 25, 1991

if people actually bothered to read the original document the statement on hip hop only applies to the one program where the scandal-ridden guy quit. but because no one loving reads anymore, they just see a tweet and decide china is banning hip hop

Karl Barks
Jan 21, 1981

R. Guyovich posted:

if people actually bothered to read the original document the statement on hip hop only applies to the one program where the scandal-ridden guy quit. but because no one loving reads anymore, they just see a tweet and decide china is banning hip hop

this seems to indicate it was larger than that

http://pigeonsandplanes.com/news/2018/01/china-banned-hip-hop-culture-television

quote:

The country now "specifically requires that programs should not feature actors with tattoos [or depict] hip hop culture, sub-culture and dispirited culture" after new rules were put in place by the State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television of the People’s Republic of China (SAPPRFT).

These new restrictions were implemented following a recent decision to remove a rapper named GAI from one of China's biggest singing competition shows, Singer. Other recent instances of hip-hop censorship in the country have occured when rapper VaVa was cut from variety show Happy Camp, and songs by underground rapper Triple H were removed from several major streaming sites. A contestant on a show called Super Brian even had his necklace blurred out because it was deemed to be too closely in line with hip-hop aesthetics.

Rapper PG One was also recently forced to apologize for his song "Christmas Eve," which contained themes of drug use and tropes from popular hip-hop culture.

R. Guyovich
Dec 25, 1991


i'm going by the original statement, which emphasizes the "four must nots" as universal requirements but in the section about hip-hop (嘻哈), it uses the term 节目 meaning "item on a program" or "program" rather than 广播电视 meaning "broadcast and television" more generally. this was the term used to address guests when discussing the "four must nots" but not the one used to discuss hip hop culture, tattoo artists, etc. idk about the other measures but it seems like western reporting is lumping in unrelated incidents. previous censorship has come after the women's league criticized artists and was done to specifically combat misogynistic lyrics, according to the statements put out that, again, no one actually reads. the drug use stuff is similar — promotion of drug culture is seen as incitement against the law. which is dumb, but, whatever

Karl Barks
Jan 21, 1981

R. Guyovich posted:

i'm going by the original statement, which emphasizes the "four must nots" as universal requirements but in the section about hip-hop (嘻哈), it uses the term 节目 meaning "item on a program" or "program" rather than 广播电视 meaning "broadcast and television" more generally. this was the term used to address guests when discussing the "four must nots" but not the one used to discuss hip hop culture, tattoo artists, etc. idk about the other measures but it seems like western reporting is lumping in unrelated incidents. previous censorship has come explicitly after the women's league criticized artists and was done to expressly combat misogynistic lyrics, according to the statements put out that, again, no one actually reads

okay, that's fair. i think people just associate it with bill o'reilly-esque arguments against hip hop, and so it all seems very silly

R. Guyovich
Dec 25, 1991

Karl Barks posted:

okay, that's fair. i think people just associate it with bill o'reilly-esque arguments against hip hop, and so it all seems very silly

the government CAN be pretty retrograde but this isn't a particularly good example of that imo. the more important stuff is women's representation in cpc leadership and state posts

Frijolero
Jan 24, 2009

by Nyc_Tattoo
Any piece like "Iran bans English" or "China bans hip hop" or "Russia bans the color pink" is usually 99% bullshit crybaby Western propaganda.

GoluboiOgon
Aug 19, 2017

by Nyc_Tattoo

Frijolero posted:

Any piece like "Iran bans English" or "China bans hip hop" or "Russia bans the color pink" is usually 99% bullshit crybaby Western propaganda.

russia did actually decriminalize domestic abuse tho. never underestimate the stupidity of the russian duma.

Dreddout
Oct 1, 2015

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.

GoluboiOgon posted:

russia did actually decriminalize domestic abuse tho. never underestimate the stupidity of the russian duma.

I'm mean, I wouldn't call it stupidity so much as overt malevolence

R. Guyovich posted:

the government CAN be pretty retrograde but this isn't a particularly good example of that imo. the more important stuff is women's representation in cpc leadership and state posts

How do the Chinese plan on fixing this? Would they do it through affirmative action, or a larger civil rights movement?

Yossarian-22
Oct 26, 2014


neoliberals posting chapo tweets is actually cultural appropriation

Frijolero
Jan 24, 2009

by Nyc_Tattoo

GoluboiOgon posted:

russia did actually decriminalize domestic abuse tho. never underestimate the stupidity of the russian duma.

Well Russia has done a lot of heinous poo poo in the past 20 years, but writing and circulating concern-troll articles about silly poo poo doesn't do anything.

Fallen Hamprince
Nov 12, 2016

Yossarian-22 posted:

neoliberals posting chapo tweets is actually cultural appropriation

the only culturally sacred chapo boy is the one that dresses like an oscar wilde impersonator and calls himself 'voltaire tennessee' or something

Finicums Wake
Mar 13, 2017
Probation
Can't post for 8 years!
a hamprince post got a lol out of me. what is this world coming to??

R. Guyovich
Dec 25, 1991

Dreddout posted:

How do the Chinese plan on fixing this? Would they do it through affirmative action, or a larger civil rights movement?

that's a better question for an actual cpc member, but the membership has steadily increased the proportion of women over the years. it's still way out of whack. i'm sure the all-china women's federation has better answers, too.

Bulgogi Hoagie
Jun 1, 2012

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i’m sure china didn’t really ban all hip hop. just a little bit of it, to protect the hip hoppers from cultural appropriation

Bulgogi Hoagie
Jun 1, 2012

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party knows best when it comes to what a true xiist should listen to

Fallen Hamprince
Nov 12, 2016

i'm sure a censorship crackdown is going to be fuckin great for chinese hip hop, every video's gonna be a dude standing in front of a smiling crowd going like

Yo my name's MC Xi and I'm here to say/
I love my great country in a major way
Givin' love to the party and obeyin' each rule/
If someone says Tibet's a country then kill that fool

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

You can try all these excuses you like to cover up the fact that Ajit Singh was right, lmao.

Fallen Hamprince
Nov 12, 2016

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

You can try all these excuses you like to cover up the fact that Ajit Singh was right, lmao.

ahahaha i looked at the tweet and singh cites a Global Times article lmao

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

That doesn't change the fact that half the people on this forum and on twitter got owned by a tankie, because none of them can read Chinese.

Bulgogi Hoagie
Jun 1, 2012

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not actually banning all hip hop just the stuff that the old farts in the comintern don’t feel is spiritually socialist enough

gotta enforce that aesthetic

Fallen Hamprince
Nov 12, 2016

R. Guyovich posted:

i'm going by the original statement, which emphasizes the "four must nots" as universal requirements but in the section about hip-hop (嘻哈), it uses the term 节目 meaning "item on a program" or "program" rather than 广播电视 meaning "broadcast and television" more generally. this was the term used to address guests when discussing the "four must nots" but not the one used to discuss hip hop culture, tattoo artists, etc. idk about the other measures but it seems like western reporting is lumping in unrelated incidents. previous censorship has come after the women's league criticized artists and was done to specifically combat misogynistic lyrics, according to the statements put out that, again, no one actually reads. the drug use stuff is similar — promotion of drug culture is seen as incitement against the law. which is dumb, but, whatever

assuming this is your source, that reading makes no sense. the directive doesn't name any one program in particular, and 节目 could just as easily be translated as "programs". i really hope you are arguing in bad faith here because the alternative is that you've somehow managed to spend weeks or months in china without learning how plurals work

R. Guyovich
Dec 25, 1991

Fallen Hamprince posted:

assuming this is your source, that reading makes no sense. the directive doesn't name any one program in particular, and 节目 could just as easily be translated as "programs". i really hope you are arguing in bad faith here because the alternative is that you've somehow managed to spend weeks or months in china without learning how plurals work

thank you for correcting me. the original statement uses "节目中" which is most often seen when referring to specific programs. a cursory baidu search will show this. you'll also notice this construction is distinct from earlier constructions in the statement, which only use "节目" and thus can be fairly inferred as plural. i appreciate your condescension, though!

Bulgogi Hoagie
Jun 1, 2012

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meanwhile hip hop artists arent the only large demographic of people the commies would like to brainwash or dissapear

Bulgogi Hoagie
Jun 1, 2012

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for some reason it’s the most downtrotten minority in china that ends up in the modern gulag, but i’m sure someone can explain this from a marxist theoretic perspective to the dumb liberal me

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

Bulgogi Hoagie posted:

for some reason it’s the most downtrotten minority in china that ends up in the modern gulag, but i’m sure someone can explain this from a marxist theoretic perspective to the dumb liberal me

Putting reactionaries into re-education camps is better than drone bombing them indefinitely.

BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


Lipstick Apathy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1aHYOyRphE

Fallen Hamprince
Nov 12, 2016

R. Guyovich posted:

thank you for correcting me. the original statement uses "节目中" which is most often seen when referring to specific programs. a cursory baidu search will show this. you'll also notice this construction is distinct from earlier constructions in the statement, which only use "节目" and thus can be fairly inferred as plural. i appreciate your condescension, though!

the '中' in this context means "in", and while it may be used to describe the contents of a particular program (which is the context in which you're probably seeing it most on baidu) SAPPRFT regulations like this one use it to mean 'the contents of a program', as in "(二)擅自在所传送的节目中插播节目、数据、图像、文字及其他信息的;" forbidding the transmission of unauthorized programs (节目), data (数据), images (图像) or other information in a broadcast (节目中, with 'zhōng' here indicating the containing relationship).

Karl Barks
Jan 21, 1981

holy poo poo hamprince knows chinese fam

Fallen Hamprince
Nov 12, 2016

我说的不好

only 1300 characters :(

R. Guyovich
Dec 25, 1991

i only have a tiny baby vocabulary of about 400 characters so i'm not going to pretend at authority on the language, but there is more ambiguity in the phrasing than you're letting on, especially since the sina report makes mention of the show which previously featured GAI. in any case it's irresponsible to report it like tattoo artists and rappers are being sent to gulags the way time did

Fallen Hamprince
Nov 12, 2016

time's reporting (as posted by karl barks) is entirely in line with what i've seen reported elsewhere fwiw

R. Guyovich
Dec 25, 1991

Fallen Hamprince posted:

time's reporting (as posted by karl barks) is entirely in line with what i've seen reported elsewhere fwiw

i single them out because they were first and other outlets piggybacked on the time report. same process as stories on the dprk

Bulgogi Hoagie
Jun 1, 2012

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Pener Kropoopkin posted:

Putting reactionaries into re-education camps is better than drone bombing them indefinitely.

if you dont want to be brutally exploited by the chinese forever you are a reactionary :thunk:

Yossarian-22
Oct 26, 2014

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

Putting reactionaries into re-education camps is better than drone bombing them indefinitely.

Good job vindicating people who shout "what-aboutism" at the top of their lungs

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Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

Yossarian-22 posted:

Good job vindicating people who shout "what-aboutism" at the top of their lungs

They're always going to gripe about what-aboutism, who gives a poo poo. I literally said left wing authoritarianism is good ITT. If it were up to me every member of Army of God would be re-educated, along with everyone else who supports anti-abortion terrorism.

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