Posted on 05/23/2017 11:14:12 AM PDT by simpson96
If you look at any thread about Trump, Islam or immigration on a Chinese social media platform these days, it’s impossible to avoid encountering the term baizuo, or literally, the ‘white left’. It first emerged about two years ago, and yet has quickly become one of the most popular derogatory descriptions for Chinese netizens to discredit their opponents in online debates.
So what does ‘white left’ mean in the Chinese context, and what’s behind the rise of its (negative) popularity? It might not be an easy task to define the term, for as a social media buzzword and very often an instrument for ad hominem attack, it could mean different things for different people. A thread on “why well-educated elites in the west are seen as naïve “white left” in China” on Zhihu, a question-and-answer website said to have a high percentage of active users who are professionals and intellectuals, might serve as a starting point.
The question has received more than 400 answers from Zhihu users, which include some of the most representative perceptions of the ‘white left’. Although the emphasis varies, baizuo is used generally to describe those who “only care about topics such as immigration, minorities, LGBT and the environment” and “have no sense of real problems in the real world”; they are hypocritical humanitarians who advocate for peace and equality only to “satisfy their own feeling of moral superiority”; they are “obsessed with political correctness” to the extent that they “tolerate backwards Islamic values for the sake of multiculturalism”; they believe in the welfare state that “benefits only the idle and the free riders”; they are the “ignorant and arrogant westerners” who “pity the rest of the world and think they are saviours”.
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Do they consider Barack Obambi as part of the “white left”?
Maybe half-white left...
Even the Chinese know these people are fools of the highest order.
That’s racist and I’m offended!
Never underestimate the Red Menace.
I’ll have to add “baizuo” to my vocabulary. It will take months for my worldly, sophisticated friends on the Left to catch on.
In before the torrent of "Confucious Say" and fortune cookie jokes. d;^)
Wow. they nailed it. And the “white left” have no idea that’s how they look.
‘Baizuo’... good for the Chinos. Didn’t know that we have allies in that quarter.
Isn't that one of the terms ya hear a few times in "Serenity"?
I like it.
It apparently means ‘Stupid Liberals’................
“only care about topics such as immigration, minorities, LGBT and the environment”
“have no sense of real problems in the real world”
advocate for peace and equality only to “satisfy their own feeling of moral superiority”
“obsessed with political correctness” to the extent that they “tolerate backwards Islamic values for the sake of multiculturalism”
they believe in the welfare state that “benefits only the idle and the free riders”
“pity the rest of the world and think they are saviours”
Daym. Gotta give credit where credit is due. They nailed that one.
I suppose the word libtard loses a bit in translation.
hahaha
Asian immigrants in general are hard working, entrepreneurial, and family oriented people who look down on anyone who isn’t. And while they’re too smart to express it openly, they specifically have very little use for blacks and ghetto “culture”. So it seems to me the phrase “White Left” seems pretty simple and straight forward to interpret. It’s white liberals on the political left who spend all their time trying to tear down the society these Asians have worked hard to adapt to and to a very large extent thrive in. The Koreans on the tops of their shops with scoped rifles during the Rodney King riots are the types I’m thinking of.
Seems to me that quite accurately describes the entire democRat party, and the rino/progressive/establishment wing of the repug party.
Kind of rhymes with “aiyoh!” which naturally would precede it in conversation.
bkmk
I’ll second that. They are nobody’s fool.
I’m in SoCal and know a wide range of Asians. There are some who buy into the “white Americans are the evil oppressor” but it’s not as widespread as in a number of other ethnic groups.
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