A draft law banning speech and dressing “detrimental to the spirit of Chinese people” has sparked debate in China.
If the law comes into force, people found guilty could be fined or jailed but the proposal does not yet spell out what constitutes a violation.
Social media users and legal experts have called for more clarity to avoid excessive enforcement.
China recently released a swathe of proposed changes to its public security laws - the first reforms in decades.
The clothing law has drawn immediate reaction from the public - with many online criticising it as excessive and absurd.
The contentious clauses suggest that people who wear or force others to wear clothing and symbols that “undermine the spirit or hurt the feelings of the Chinese nation” could be detained for up to 15 days and fined up to 5,000 yuan ($680; £550).
BORN TO DIE
WORLD IS A FUCK
Kill Em All 1989
I am trash man
410,757,864,530 DEAD COPS
? You alright?
China said no abaya!
Knowing the control China demands I am not shocked.
And this is how the Chinese ends up wearing a national uniform.
I find this kind of interesting after Naomi Wu (also known as SexyCyborg) recently had a run-in with the CCP and has largely gone silent online.
For anyone not familiar with her/her situation, she’s a tech/maker YouTuber. She has a pretty radical look with enormous fake boobs and skimpy outfits, but she does have some genuinely interesting content. She had been calling out some security vulnerabilities that recently got some attention so that’s likely why the Chinese government, in her words, clipped her wings, but she had a bit of a target painted on her back regardless because of her appearance, being a lesbian, and because her girlfriend is a Uyghur.
She’s a pretty smart gal, but uses her looks to Garner views and get attention which I would imagine is very difficult for female tech enthusiasts in China, which is male dominated.
She also has non traditional sexual gender identities which doesn’t endear her to the Chinese authorities. But the real kicker is when she identified a security and privacy issue with an android keyboard.
Jesus Christ, I know moving your life is not that simple, but she and her gf need to run from that hell hole.
Her GF literally can’t get out of the country
That guy on the rented jet ski managed it.
Wasn’t he escaping North Korea?
I don’t think so. I think it was China and he went across the Yellow Sea to South Korea.
Can people in N Korea even rent a jet ski? I can’t imagine that’s a thing.
She actually did partially address that, obviously without going into too many details, saying that she could leave but her girlfriend couldn’t, so they’re pretty much just going to keep their heads down and play by the rules.
Holy fuck she sounds badass
Oh for real, she is. She’s pretty sexy too.
bit of a target painted on her back regardless because of her appearance, being a lesbian, and because her girlfriend is a Uyghur.
“Bit of a target” indeed. She’s like a walking Bingo card of everything China suppresses.
Hope she’s okay.
The wild part to me is that overall I never got the impression from anything I saw from her that she was particularly anti-ccp, some of the annoyed grumbling I’d expect from literally anybody living under any government in the world, but that’s about it. Overall she seemed to be a pretty proud Chinese citizen, and probably a good spokesperson for the Chinese tech sector, from watching her videos I know that I’m slightly less quick to dismiss any Chinese gadgets as chinesium garbage. I’d think she’d be more useful to keep around for PR purposes, but after her previous incidents didn’t make significant waves with her western audience, it seems that they figured they’re free to bully her however they want to now.
Big Clive posted an update today saying they were in touch, she’s ok, and just lying low for the time being.
i kinda want to build a storefront that only sells things on the ban list.
I’m unable to find the original Chinese, but couldn’t “hurt national feelings” just as well be translated as “do emotional damage”? Like walking around London 1997 with a shirt that said “Princess Di deserved to die”? Now while that aint illegal in the UK (as far as I know) it’s at least a little less ridiculous to talk about trauma from events that affect a nation rather than this dismissive right-wing language of “hurt national feelings”.
(this is not a pro-CCP comment please give me the benefit of the doubt)
wearing a t-shirt saying an actual valued member of the royal family deserved to die likely would get you arrested in the UK, regardless of the legality of it
No it wouldn’t, don’t be ridiculous. Yes there was some heavy handed policing around the queen’s funeral and the coronation which was pretty disgusting, but no-one is being arrested for just wearing an anti-royal tee shirt. Hell it was 50 years ago when the sex pistols were calling the monarchy a “Fascist regime” and they weren’t arrested for that.
Vive la révolution
“hurting the feelings of the Chinese people” is a phrase commonly used by the ccp that means anything that goes against our narrative. see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurting_the_feelings_of_the_Chinese_people?useskin=vector
wow i had no idea thank you for the context
Yeah? How about closing those sweatshops that pollute Chinese rivers, drinking water, that destroys soil so that plants can never grow again, where Chinese works inhale colorant and chemicals… how about that shit, CCP?
That hurts the land and the people and not the CCP’s feelings, so the CCP doesn’t care.
But then how is the CCP supposed to get money for more PR campaigns that magically don’t ever show those parts of China?
Is china hoping to become more like north korea?
Zhao Hong, a law professor at the Chinese University of Political Science and Law said the lack of clarity could lead to an infringement of personal.
Adorable that anyone is suggesting this is a bug, not a feature.
From how I understand the situation, that’s the quiet thing they don’t get to say out loud…
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Honestly, I feel the same about both: it’s absurd. With France I get the “freedom from religion” spiel from some Frenchman, but it’s veiled xenophobia to me. When you ban a kind of clothing but only for one group of people, that’s basically the definition. Here, it’s just fascism. At least the Chinese people are speaking out.
France doesn’t ban religious anything, only in public schools, that’s all. Outside education people are free to do what they want. What China is doing is wildly different, China just bans things in general for all sectors of life
Public school? You mean that place that children are mandated to be? Also you forgot government. It was a whole thing. So if you’re a Muslim and you want to be a part of the French government, then I hope you don’t have any attachment to those head scarves. There are other religions ornamentation, but the head scarves one was the last one I saw. And whether school or a DMV clerk, it’s dumb.
Also noticed I used two different labels for France rather than China. I think China is fascist with what they’re doing. France is xenophobic with what they’re doing.
France is the least Xenophobic country on Earth, what are you even saying?
The French didn’t ban for only one group of people, all religions are affected.
I’m French and if you believe that they got you good
I’ve been to France many times and religion isn’t banned at all, France is an incredibly diverse country, probably the most in all of Europe
We’re talking about the schools, specifically
nobody suggested they “ban religion”
Yes you are, that’s what you people are all implying and it’s completely false
can you explain who “you people” are? are they in the room with us right now?
can you also give the specific quote where “you people” said france bans all religion? you didnt just, y’know, imagine it did you?
It targeted one group of people though.
Either way banning clothes is stupid.
Other groups of people have been affected in the past. The Muslims are just the current latest group affected by it.
Either way banning clothes is stupid.
They have pretty sound logic for doing it
Other groups of people have been affected in the past. The Muslims are just the current latest group affected by it.
Any recent examples?
They have pretty sound logic for doing it
What’s the logic?
when women are obligated to cover up, people just accept those governments telling them what to do; have you seen any protests lately about governments in the middle east and asia telling women to cover up?
You serious? The hijab protests in Iran have been huge news for a while, not sure how you missed it:
The protests in Iran over the Hijab got overwhelming support on Reddit last year.
Authoritarian Middle East is bad. Authoritarian China is bad.
Gonna be a bunch of nude people, everything upsets these pooh-soft dopes
For those wondering, “Hurting the feelings of the Chinese people” is an actual phrase (伤害中国人民的感情) it started all the way back in the late 50s.
this last part “感情 ganqing” translated as “feelings” or “emotional attachment”, it’s actually an important part of chinese culture, esp business culture (similar to this is “guanxi” which is someone’s network). These are major parts of chinese culture and relationships with others. this phrase is more like “you’re hurting our relationship”
This seems similar to Republicans’ current crusade to ban books they believe will hurt the “fabric of the country.”
It feels shady the way the media uses this overly literal translation of ‘hurt the feelings’ all the time in order to make the Chinese sound ridiculous. Could make any foreign language speaker sound ridiculous by cherry picking funny but common phrases and translating them literally.
? It’s the best way to translate it, some Chinese words don’t have good English translations and vice versa
There’s a better translation right here in this thread. “Hurting our relationship” is not so literal and so doesn’t sound daft in English.
It’s understandable, the way people dress is very important to creating a good environment. As a business owner I strictly enforce a dress code for my employees whether their job is forward facing or not. No clothes with political (BLM/pride) messages, no shorts, women must wear heels and makeup, etc. I asked my employees to also follow the dress code while working from home during the pandemic but I had a gut feeling that many of them were not doing so which is part of why I insisted they come back to the office as soon as COVID disappeared.
I really hope you understand the downvotes. It could change your life.
This seems like a parody account. Look at the username.
but the proposal does not yet spell out what constitutes a violation.
and this is not a coincidence. Authoritarian states love vaguely operationalized definitions like this because it’s basically a blanko check to arrest anyone at any time. And it puts the populace into a fearful, fatalist mindset of “I could be arrested at any time for bogus charges, even if I did nothing wrong.”
