dgtam86.bsky.social
Historian of Modern China at Trinity University (focus on language, identity, gender, protest, Hong Kong); author of Dialect and Nationalism in China, 1860-1960; NCUSCR PIPVII 2021-2023; Wilson Fellow 2022-2023. 4th-gen Italian-American
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Congrats Vivian!
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Honest to god "Fund social services" would be a better slogan politically and, while still very misleading, would somehow still be more correct than defund the police??
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Maybe I'm bad at English, but I presume "defund" means "take funds away" or even "take ALL funds away so that it ceases to exist." Most ppl presume it means the latter, which is AFAIK not the point of defund the police. Rarely do I think it means "move some functions to different agencies"
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Yeah, I'm with him on Abolish ICE (which actually captures the spirit of the proposal-- that it is an institution that is relatively new, unnecessary, and hugely harmful). But the spirit of defund the police (move some policing budget to services) is absolutely not captured in word "defund."
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This feels really sad :( I get it (and an underdiscussed effect of national language policies) but it makes me sad to think this association overwhelming other more personal/community-based ones (esp since the PRC doesn't own Mandarin!)
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Interesting. My husband has similar feelings about Mandarin, but speaks Canto to our daughter (we'll likely eventually teach her Mandarin). Do they speak fangyan to their kids?
On the flip side, I met ppl in HK who don't speak Canto to their kids bc they don't see it as "useful." That made me sad.
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I think the key common denominator here that connects the two is the opaque rationale people were put in prison and the impossibility of getting them out even under international legal rulings
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Ok at first glance I thought this was about gemini the astrological sign and I thought "ah yes, we geminis are indeed prone to giving long sermons on why simple explanations often backfire" lol
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PS: Feel free to email me/DM me if you have a panel idea!
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Look, this is much simpler than that.
When a billionaire says there's "fraud and waste" in the government, they mean "the government is giving money to non rich people which is a waste and those poor are frauds"
That's it.
That's the whole fuckin thing.
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Medical transition is really difficult to access in China, despite a couple of clinics here and there, and the govt has repeatedly raided or shut down trans NGOS and support services such as Beijing LGBT Centre. Both pro and anti China discourse from the west are often misleading and dehumanising