Americans are joining the Chinese social media app en masse to protest an imminent TikTok ban.
- American users have flocked to Chinese social media platform Xiaohongshu in defiance of security warnings.
- Chinese and American users have engaged in surprisingly friendly conversations about each other’s lives.
- The influx of American users could burden Xiaohongshu’s censorship mechanism, experts say.
The hexies are so excited about this too. They’ve got a thread up (erroneously) hoping that Americans will now stop believing that Chinese people are bad, because they can’t face the truth that Americans (who aren’t magats) only think the Chinese government is an authoritarian shit show and have no problem with regular Chinese citizens.
Solidarity amongst the working class, no matter what imaginary made up boundaries divide us.
Exactly. When workers start talking to each other across borders (national and otherwise) and as equals that’s like one of the crucial steps for positive change. No worker in China ever denied me medicine or raised my rent.
Xenophobia and racism exist in America outside of the trump ultras. Hell, outside of the republican party even
Thank you for vigorously following Hexbear to spread misinformation about it on .world. Defederating really helped clean up the narrative.