Apr
14th
2021
China claims My Little Pony and other various children’s cartoons are too dangerous and violent. · 7:28am Apr 14th, 2021
China plz don't act more retarded than you already are.
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Popular cartoon series such as Barbie, Peppa Pig and My Little Pony are under fire in China after parents complained to a consumer rights watchdog that they contained “inappropriate behaviour”.
The report claimed it found a total of 123 ‘gloomy, thrilling and suspenseful’ scenes and what it called ‘exaggerated facial expressions.
In a scene in the My Little Pony cartoon, a character dips itself in lava.
China racist against dragons, confirmed!
China, just need to ask... why do you never fail to look so bad to the rest of the world?
Sadly, cause the rest of the world lets them get away with it, and pays for the privilege of being their laughing stock.
Someone should send them a link to derpiboru... with filters off
[quotePopular cartoon series such as Barbie, Peppa Pig and My Little Pony are under fire in China after parents complained to a consumer rights watchdog that they contained “inappropriate behaviour”.
In other words, Xinnie the Pooh didn't like it.
You know what else is illegal in the People's Republic of China? The Winnie the Pooh series of cartoons and children's books. It hurt Xinnie's little fee-fees that he looks like a human Winnie the Pooh and some of his political rivals used it to make fun of him.
Because they're actually that bad?
How can China still function with there leaders being more retarded than the text book definition?
China can't give hope to the peasants that live under their dictatorship. Ponies are too bright and colorful.
Also, maybe they read the fan fiction and don't want ponies. Even if most of it not grimdark or gore related. XD
Well... Peppa Pig can be dangerous due to the fact that it destroys braincells, but come on China, don't act like a bunch of soccer moms.
It's flabbergasting how many people there are in the world that just can't comprehend the word, 'Fiction'.
If this isn't a topic we can all agree on I don't even know what to say.
Let's just set aside the other cartoons. I've never watched them. Maybe they're bad. Maybe China is right on those ones. I don't care. I'll concede them up front.
But MLP. Can we all agree they're wrong on that one? Can we all agree that China is just a tiny bit bad for that one?
I'm dreading that someone can't help themselves but to argue even that. I want to be wrong. But I'm not going to be surprised if someone comments with, "China is right, MLP is as bad as they claim it is." I'll just be very disappointed.
I could tell them to make their own My Little Pony if they were so dead-set against it, but I still remember what happened when they tried to do their own take on Avatar.
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Nah I think this one's unanimous; China is being dumb.
The only way it could kind of make sense is if the worldview espoused in these shows promotes unrealistic expectations in children. After all, not everyone gets to live a happy and meaningful life, find something they're good at, or even have friends. And if their government controls so many factors in their society people might start blaming it for their own problems.
Like they already do here in the US I might add.
But I have no way of knowing if this is their actual intent, and it seems more likely they've just internalized thin-skinned wokeness.
Reminds me of that tweet from Meghan McCarthy complaining that they didn't let her make Twilight punch Tirek.
WHY?
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Excuse me what? They did their own take on Avatar? What Avatar are we talking about here, the blue people movie or the spiritual series?
And where can I take a gander at it?
Can't go letting the people have hope. They might realize that there are 2 billion of them and decide Xinnie the Pooh needs his stuffing taken out
Now correct me if I'm wrong I'm not dragon specialist or anything even in the world of magic and pony's aren't dragons fire proof cause of there scales and also can breathe fire
Five Yuen says that the Chinese Communist Party saw the episode with Starlight Glimmer and 'Our Town'
They don't care about dragons or foolish children sticking objects into light sockets. This is about power and how to keep it when the whole world sees the advantages of free will and making your own decisions.
I wonder if Winnie the Pooh also made it to the list...
Bruh moment
That CHINA of all places is dissing/racists against DRAGONS is absolutely HILARIOUS!
I thought dragons were as much a Chinese thing as they were in the rest of the world.
As to that stuff about MLP and others being "dangerous and violent", MAAAYYYYYYYYBE companies that have toys and other stuff made IN China should pull all that and have them made in; oh, I don't know; Taiwan, or even better, the US, or somewhere similar.
Wonder how ol' Xinnie and his Commie cronies would like it if they suddenly began to lose all that revenue?
5497551 See 5497479's post for the reason for it, hun.
It's in the last paragraph.
But yeah, China's being "teh dumb".
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Considering that China dragons are majestic, wise and powerfull, one can easily see why they would be offended by MLPs dragons. Just remember when they were offended by that dragon in Mulan because he was stupid and clumsy.
5497551
Yeah, it was one of the first things Xinnie the Pooh banned.
How had they not already banned MLP for magic and 'witchcraft'?
5497590 Hmmm, good point.
HOWEVER, given that not ALL dragons in the different mythologies around the world are even REMOTELY like Chinese/Oriental/Eastern dragons, I think their being offended is rather foolish.
Me, I love ALL dragons of ALL sorts.
The Chinese, whether they like/choose to acknowledge it or not, do NOT have a monopoly ON dragonkind.
5497623 In a word: Money.
Just look at any place on your MLP and EqG figures and accessories, and I can pretty much 100% guarantee that you'll find "Made in China" stamped on them somewhere.
Companies like Hasbro have manufacturing plants in China for their toys and stuff, so if Hasbro; etc.; pull said plants OUT of China, there goes the money Xinnie and the CC party get from those.
Yeah, I'm cynical that way.
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That's incorrect reasoning, though. China and its various industries produce goods for many different IPs and themes that are banned from consumption to their own general population, and have done so for decades. They are all too happy to get paid to help Western nations erode themselves and their people with 'mass-produced degeneracy', even though such things are outlawed for their own populace. This article was about a Chinese consumer group labeling MLP as inappropriate for children and the general population, even though China has previously banned other things due to inclusions of magic and witchcraft, which MLP certainly has. This is not about money, and my question was about inconsistent "moral" objections used to censor things from the Chinese mainland population and why MLP hadn't already been banned years ago.
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Scroll down to "Empires of the Deep" and enjoy the read.
Friendship is Capitalism ! Captalism is bad ! Don´t you agree, comrade ?
5497623
They have no problem with witchcraft. Free thinking and questioning your leaders, on the other hand, that´s a big NO NO for then.
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That raises more questions though. Fighting King Sombra, who had reigned over the Crystal Empire for more than a thousand years (yes, I know they skipped that time); leading the local populace to overthrow their long-established political system. Fighting Starlight Glimmer and her control of Our Town, which has numerous parallels to Communism; leading the local populace to reject a brutal system of forced equality and mandated groupthink under the rule of an all-powerful central authority figure. They surely would have flagged FiM before now for those things.
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Do you want to start a nuclear war? Because that is how you start a nuclear war.
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Nah, I bet Xi Jinping is one of the uploaders in disguise (probably one of artists behind Starlight x Trixie
).
And let me make it clear that this is a list made by a local fire association and does not represent China.
Second, there is a common perception among our young generation in China that only a retarded person can make such a list.
Third, we've basically become so frustrated with the censorship system in China for entertainment. I'm 19 years old, I'm an adult, but I can't see the word "death"（死亡） in computer games，because they thought Dead Cell would affect the physical and mental development of children, so "death" becomes "rebirth."
And then there’s Minecraft, where “You’re dead”becomes “You failed.”
Until now，China does not yet have any grading system, and the loopholes and double standards in this regard lead to a lot of rubbish work.
5497623
I guess you mean, in Chinese, “TChina will ban certain works on the grounds of feudal superstition”
To be honest, why not try to see what our Qingming-Festival and spring festival are like..
Editor: (Why did you give me a stamp?I just wanted to reflect that our traditional Festival is now an empty shell)
5497476
It’s better not to do this.
If that happens, Deribaru will be blacklisted from the Great Firewall and From then on,I and other Chinese brony will have to borrow VPN software to access it.
Like when I visited youtube, it was blocked because it contained “Adult content.”.
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Coke
Popular Science Time:
The China state administration of radio, film and television shall be responsible for the examination and approval of cultural and entertainment works。Of course, it also includes the introduction and examination of foreign works
And this piece was written by Local organization an idiot with a 20-year history of cerebral thrombosis.
It doesn’t have anything to do with that
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I want you to know that I, most other Chinese brony, my classmates and even my elders are disgusted by this news release。
Please refer to my other comments..
5497531
I’m curious.
Do Foreign students enjoy politics very much?Politics is one of our least favorite subjects in China (second only to physics, in my opinion)
We never think of Realpolitik when we watch cartoons, and the equal village of Starlight Glimmer... I don’t see any resemblance
5497590
I don’t have any experience with Chinese dragons，and I don’t think... Well, maybe some idiot would use that as an excuse.
There’s a saying in China that says, “When the forest big, There are all kinds of fish ”
China with a population of 1.4 billion, I’ve met a lot of idiots.
Of course, that’s not the point. Check out my other comments.
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If you can get more eyeballs on a Reporting, you can make more money.
China has countless marketing numbers, no matter from the media choose to wildly advocate for China, wildly demean China, wildly advocate for foreign countries, wildly demean foreign countries... can let you get money.
Such reports of imbecility are naturally included..
But that’s not the point, as I’ve made clear in other comments
5517797 It's a matter of statistics. Half the people you meet have a below-average IQ, which is a little depressing at times when you think "These people drive?"
5517796 There is an old joke that Ronald Reagan liked to tell, that I'll link as a video instead of trying to type it all out. In short, Americans are a fractious, unruly lot. We have no problems expressing our opinions about our leaders because the government is specifically restricted from retaliating against such opinions. For example, in your country, would it be acceptable behavior to directly confront China with opposition to how they are treating the Uighur minority? To call for Tibet independence? To demand that China give up claims on Taiwan? Or would such activities result in negative consequences to yourself and your family? I'll be the first to admit that China has excellent trains, beautiful tourism, and that I would feel perfectly safe traveling from one end of the country to another (now that I have my Covid shots), but during such a trip, I would keep my big mouth shut. That's a price.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMSt48FWjWk
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My VPN software is out of date so I cannot access Youtube for the time being...
Oh, are you serious? All of these questions are... Forget it
The treatment of the Uighurs?How does your media report it?
First of all, to be clear, there are no so-called concentration camps in Xinjiang, but I would be very grateful if you would like to know about the formalist problems that I and my friends from Xinjiang face.
As for Taiwan and Tibet, the law obligates Chinese citizens to uphold China's right to territorial integrity.
Simply put, if a Chinese person in China makes any of the following statements, he will be invited to tea by the NSA because his actions are incitement to split China.
In short, illegal behavior.
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Yeah Tittysparkle's blog post is probably cherry picking; most of them are. Not sure whether she intentionally does that or just goes along with whatever propaganda is trendy that day. I should have resisted the temptation to go along with it tbh.
But wow does china have thin skin if someone there got on their VPN to combat even this obscure blog post that's not even getting a significant amount of views anymore. I mean, I'm not even sure TS is being serious about the post, or tounge-in-cheek.
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The media here reports it as a genocide instead of a re-education. To be fair it is far more brutal than China is currently reporting, with easily a hundred thousand killed in the process based on what my contacts in China and access to real-time satellite imagery says (you guys need to do a better job of hiding mass graves). It's also kind of hypocritical of the US government to push the concept of genocide after covering up what happened in East Timor and normalizing the situation in the middle east. Ultimately it's a strategy of manufactured consent; all the current propaganda is designed to get Americans to accept a war with China if it happens.
If you haven't read Manufacturing Consent by Noam Chomsky, you should find a copy and read it. It's the reason all major nations are corporate oligarchies in practice, despite whatever they claim to be in principle. Including China.
What amuses me most about the propaganda is how racists and conservatives here in the US said they hated muslims and were against their immigration for years, but then suddenly it's a bad thing when China is killing them en masse, and re-educating some. But then again, the average person just doesn't think about these things, instead just going along with the controlled narrative. Just know that you're not separate from that global system of propaganda, and are also susceptible to it. The only way out is post scarcity by technologically ensured self-sufficiency. Then we can go live on the moon or under the ice in Antarctica and leave the control freaks to let them go extinct.
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No Chinese brony will attack this article,……I just feel lose face 。Because of the Fire protection association bad press send it abroad.
I'm not talking about TS's blog post either, just explaining the crazy things marketing media in China can do for profit.
PS: Fimfiction can be accessed without a VPN
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Genocide in Xinjiang?No, my friends from Xinjiang have repeatedly stressed how strict China is in economic support and cultural protection for ethnic minorities.
There is no genocide in Xinjiang, but there is another problem, formalism.
In the past, Xinjiang has been a key target of terrorism in China, so China's security measures in Xinjiang are very high. There is even a rumor here that there are outposts 100 meters apart in Xinjiang.
Rumor is rumors, the reality is not that exaggerated, but there are a lot of posts in Xinjiang, full of armed guards.
Formalism is that we have to take political classes for credit, and most of us have no interest in politics at all!
Our politics class is formalistic enough, we are not interested in it, the teacher knows we are not interested in it, but the course is still like this, the teacher is talking on the top, we are in the chair with our heads down to play mobile phones.We pass the final exam by reciting the question bank.
Students in Xinjiang, on the other hand, are even more involved in politics, since a group of students were found to be involved in terrorism there not long ago, so the control has been tightened.The victims are normal students who now have to copy even political concepts, word by word, on paper.
To tell you the truth, this meaningless copying...It's just one of our formalism
In addition, when the cult Falun Gong was prevalent in the early days, the Chinese government had to dismantle the mosques on a large scale, which inevitably caused losses to normal religious believers.
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You sweet innocent child. Do you even know what happened in Tianenmen square?
Not that you'd be able to talk about it without you or your family ending up disappeared.
Not that there aren't also subjects like that in the US, but understandably, people don't usually hear about them.
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That's good to know about Fimfiction.
For the record NordVPN is controlled by the NSA and ExpressVPN is controlled by the CCP. Just so you know where not to go for security purposes. Sadly, I don't know which VPNs are actually legitimate. I just prefer Tails OS with TOR, which isn't technically a VPN but does perfectly fine if the goal is anonymity.
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Siege of Zhongnanhai... I've looked it up, but no matter what, there will always be two versions of foreign and domestic (sigh)
I don't like politics. It's the kind of thing where people don't care what the truth is. We just each believe what we want to believe.
So I hated the idea of politics in stories and all kinds of political topics, and my classmates and I would never understand why anyone would like politics so much.
But the Xinjiang thing this time I choose, I will always believe what my Xinjiang friends tell me
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Even the Great Firewall was in every aspect of my life，I also didn't understand that, because I never cared about how it worked.
I only know that he blocks most YouTube sites like Twitter because they contain NSFW content, which is true in China
5518497
The truth doesn't care what you choose to believe or what your government's narrative is. It's measurable with instrumentation and discernible with statistics and a solid logical foundation with meticulous choice of axioms. All else is subjective or propaganda. Believing what your friends say without question is probably safe in your situation, but is a poor approximation of the truth more generally.
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That's not why they block those sites, but I'm sure it's safe to keep believing that.
BTW thanks for your reasonable and peaceful conversation; it's a breath of fresh air compared to what I'm accustomed to online.
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Most of the time, statistics can be faked, so I've now turned my back on politics, which is one of those things you can't get rid of.
Of course, I personally think the problem is caused by cultural differences in the direction of public opinion. Many people of our generation are thinking like a diode, which means they are easy to be stirred by public opinion. Twenty years ago our magazine was encouraging us to learn the economic outlook and values of western powers such as the United States, etc. But now it is the reverse. This generation of Chinese people believe in their own values more.
But on the other hand, NSFW content is a real problem and spreading NSFW content in China can result in jail for "spreading obscenity"... Our older generation doesn't accept these things.
Thank you for your peaceful communication. I met a lot of foreigners who always criticized my country and even me at the first time without any reason.