China Censors 'Nomadland' Director Chloe Zhao's Oscar Win (wsj.com) 76
"Nomadland" director Chloe Zhao made history on Sunday by becoming the first woman of color and first Chinese woman to win the Oscar for best director. Official media, major search engines and internet censors in her home country are making as if it didn't happen. From a report: Ms. Zhao's win, just the second time a woman has walked away with best director, unleashed a flurry of congratulatory messages on Chinese social-media sites when it was announced Monday morning Beijing time. By midafternoon, nearly all of the posts had been erased. Searches for her name on Baidu and Sogou, the country's dominant search engines, produced numerous links to news of her previous accolades but only scattered links to deleted articles about the Academy Award honor.
State broadcaster China Central Television, the official Xinhua News Agency, and Communist Party mouthpiece the People's Daily stayed silent on the award throughout the day. Two state media reporters told the Journal they had received orders from China's propaganda ministry not to report on her victory, despite what they described as her status as a Chinese national, because of "previous public opinion." China's Foreign Ministry declined to comment on the removal of social-media posts during a regular news conference on Monday, saying it wasn't a diplomatic issue.
State broadcaster China Central Television, the official Xinhua News Agency, and Communist Party mouthpiece the People's Daily stayed silent on the award throughout the day. Two state media reporters told the Journal they had received orders from China's propaganda ministry not to report on her victory, despite what they described as her status as a Chinese national, because of "previous public opinion." China's Foreign Ministry declined to comment on the removal of social-media posts during a regular news conference on Monday, saying it wasn't a diplomatic issue.
This whataboutism is really fucking pathetic. (Score:5, Insightful)
No big tech companies have concentration camps. Douche.
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The concentration camps are all in countries fund Biden's family.
Why do you even want to believe this? What do you gain from believing it true?
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Read about them here [wikipedia.org].
Also, read about them here [extremetech.com].
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Why do you even want to believe this?
I prefer reality.
What do you gain from believing it true?
I don't have to do the mental gymnastics necessary to ignore the corruption you choose not to see.
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Three cases:
(1) Sincerely stupid. (I file most religious nuts here.)
(2) Proudly ignorant.
(3) Paid to fake it. (Possibly even with bonus payments for replies such as yours.)
Doesn't matter which case applies, though there's a concrete gain in the third case. What matters is that cheap, faceless identities spewing BS suffer no consequences. I think reputation (and to some degree visibility) should be earned.
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The comic book supervillains, usually are more menacing were someone is in their "care" and are "free to leave". However the circumstances and consequences of their departure are so extreme that they probably need to stay.
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They "Can" help, but why should they?
Their business is providing advertisements, not content. The users provide the content. If a country is saying to block that content, or you cannot do business here, they will just block that content. Because it will allow them to put advertisements on the allowed content.
These companies say they are all about free speech and say that they are tool to facilitate it, allowing a soap box for everyone and makes all things equal...
But that is just their marketing spin on
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HURR DURR China did nothing wrong!
HERP DERP The United States does just as bad or worse! Turn a blind eye to the horrifying things the Chinese government does to people!
Eat shit and die, asshole.
The Chinese government needs to DIE. The Chinese people need to rise up and overthrow their shitty corrupt authoritarian dictatorial excuse for a government, dismantle Great Firewall, destroy the surveillance machine spying on them all, and install a Western-style TRUE democracy, take back their lives, take back their destiny.
Come on China, Day of
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When is Slashdot going to become proactive in rooting out obvious paid Chinese government operatives on U.S. websites and removing you?
First they'd have to remove all Anonymous Cowards. If you're not brave enough to stand by your views, how do we know you're not an operative?
The Chinese government needs to DIE.
No one in China wants a civil war - because that's what will happen. 100s of millions will die. But I wouldn't put it past Slashdot racists to actually want that. Like that arsehole Cederic who pretends to care about Hong Kong, but he'd sooner attack Hong Kong Chinese people if given the chance.
Can't RTFA.. paywall (Score:5, Insightful)
When these articles get greenlit it gives companies who own paywall content a reason to come here and suggest their content which leads to more paywalled content and allows
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I know most people don't read the article but some of us do. When these articles get greenlit it gives companies who own paywall content a reason to come here and suggest their content which leads to more paywalled content and allows /. to act as an advertisement vehicle in an obfuscated way.
At first I moderated you +1 Insightful. Then I thought about it a bit more.
What's the difference between what you describe and if Slashdot had a review or summary of a technical documentary that was on Netflix? You learned about something potentially useful to you that if you want more of it, you have to pay.
I get it that there's a grey area, for instance things that come off as advertisements. "Manufacturer X releases Product Y!!!" Some of that is truly interesting from a state-of-tech standpoint.
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What's the difference between what you describe and if Slashdot had a review or summary of a technical documentary that was on Netflix?
There is no difference. Slashdot shouldn't be posting either.
Instead, they should feature a non-paywalled article that covers the same issue. If there isn't one, they should feature something else. There are plenty of other topics to cover.
I should not need a subscription to RTFA.
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If we, as a community, don't greelight any content behind paywalls and only greenlight content people actually want to read the value of the site goes up. If some website has great free content, they will be here regularly. If they lever
Hmm (Score:3)
This could be interesting. Because of "previous public opinion" WTH?
Is it because China was pushing the "anti-Asian" narrative, and this doesn't fit the narrative?
(China really can make information that doesn't fit the narrative disappear, making it the envy of the West's censors.)
Revising history. (Score:2)
There's at least one nice quality printed media had. It was very hard to erase what was printed. One step forward for progress. Two steps back for preserving history.
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Ding ding ding we have a winner! (Score:2)
She likely said something "controversial" in the past that the Communist Party does not like.
This is exactly what happened.
She gave an interview in 2013 [filmmakermagazine.com]
"I get asked a lot, 'Why are you doing this?'" Zhao said at the time regarding why she tells stories. "It goes back to when I was a teenager in China, being a place where there are lies everywhere."
"You felt like you were never going to be able to get out. A lot of info I received when I was younger was not true," she said. "And I became very rebellious toward my family and my background. I went to England suddenly and relearned my history. Studying political science in a liberal arts college was a way for me to figure out what is real. Arm yourself with information, and then challenge that, too."
You can imagine they aren't very impressed.
Re:Hmm (Score:5, Informative)
"Is it because China was pushing the "anti-Asian" narrative, and this doesn't fit the narrative?"
No, it's because Zhao is on record as making anti-Communist Party statements and thus cannot be acknowledged as being in any way praiseworthy. The Chinese government made a u-turn when they realized she had made those statements.
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At least the rules for China's cancel culture are clearly stated - in her case it has never been allowed to criticize the CCP. The US's is arbitrary, whereby things that were OK to say and do in the past are resurfaced and litigated in the court of public opinion based on today's rules.
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Other than her being of Chinese descent, there does not seem to be any connection to China.
She is not just of "Chinese descent". She was born in, raised in, and is a citizen of the People's Republic of China.
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"I get asked a lot, 'Why are you doing this?'" Zhao said at the time regarding why she tells stories. "It goes back to when I was a teenager in China, being a place where there are lies everywhere."
"You felt like you were never going to be able to get out. A lot of info I received when I was younger was not true," she said. "And I became very rebellious toward my family and my background. I went to England suddenly and relearned my history. Studying political science in a liberal arts college was a way for me to figure out what is real. Arm yourself with information, and then challenge that, too."
It's not about the movie. Just the person.
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Well, what really started the ball rolling was a misquote in which an interviewer turned "America is not my country" into "America is *now* my country." This ignited fury among Chinese nationalists, and it did not abate after the misquote was fixed because then they found her anti-party statements.
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Who cares... (Score:5, Informative)
...it's China, this is SOP for them, nobody cares any more.
Re:Who cares... (Score:5, Insightful)
This kind of behavior has been known at least since the Tiananmen Square incident.
Ms. Zhao made a reference to China, calling it a p (Score:5, Informative)
Woman of Color? (Score:4, Insightful)
"Nomadland" director Chloe Zhao made history on Sunday by becoming the first woman of color and first Chinese woman to win the Oscar for best director.
As a minority/brown/latin person, I must since when is someone like Chloe Zhao a "person of color"? To me, I thought the term was used for Black/African-American people (who have suffered systemic discrimination far worse than we Latinos or Asian/Asian-Americans have suffered.)
Maybe I'm wrong, but this reminds me of the time someone called Antonio Banderas (a European actor) a "person of color." Words need to have meaning that make them useful. Otherwise, they end up meaning anything and thus nothing.
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Anyone can identify as a Person of Color. You are not restricted by the race assigned to you at birth, you merely need to define yourself as a victim.
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White is the presence of all colors, right? Unless your skin is more absorptive than Vantablack, you are a person of color.
Not that racists will admit that.
I get it that you're probably a troll, but you're factually incorrect, which is fun.
What you describe applies to light-emitting sources. It's additive versus subtractive colour theory. White light is the presence of all the visible light spectrum. But in pigment/paint it's the opposite. White pigment (or skin) lacks any colour to it, causing it to not absorb any spectrum, and reflect white light. It lacks colour in that sense, which is most applicable to skin.
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What if you glow in the dark [urbandictionary.com]?
Re:Woman of Color? (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Woman of Color? (Score:5, Insightful)
Exactly this - it's an intentionally divisive term. It's used by the same people who love to needlessly throw in "white men" in tweets about some negative characteristic of men in general because then if someone objects they can rant and rave about privilege and whatnot.
I don't get mad at such people, I just tend to tune them out. So if they're making an otherwise reasonable point it gets lost in the noise of their petty rhetoric.
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It is an awkward term, but an alternative has yet to enter mainstream usage, meaning that most won't know what you are talking about if you use a more fitting but obscure term. There is much of English that needs updating, such as giving it gender-neutral pronouns.
Perhaps they could have used "minority"? That's kind of fell out of usage.
Re:Woman of Color? (Score:4, Informative)
"Nomadland" director Chloe Zhao made history on Sunday by becoming the first woman of color and first Chinese woman to win the Oscar for best director.
As a minority/brown/latin person, I must since when is someone like Chloe Zhao a "person of color"? To me, I thought the term was used for Black/African-American people (who have suffered systemic discrimination far worse than we Latinos or Asian/Asian-Americans have suffered.)
Maybe I'm wrong, but this reminds me of the time someone called Antonio Banderas (a European actor) a "person of color." Words need to have meaning that make them useful. Otherwise, they end up meaning anything and thus nothing.
Let's face it. PoC means "visibly non-white person". As in, someone who's subject to discrimination based on their skin.
Spanish, Turkish, Greek... "swarthy" individuals are on the list. Sure, they may not get it as bad as other groups, and some of them may "pass" sometimes. But people of Chinese descent absolutely qualify, being non-caucasian.
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Let's face it. PoC means "visibly non-white person". As in, someone who's subject to discrimination based on their skin.
PoC are the new Aryans, and white people, especially white men are the new Jews. This is where Leftism takes you...
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Found the neo-Nazi. "White men are the new Jews"? Seriously? Plenty of REAL Jews still being attacked and terrorized by men who are white.
Found the logical fallacy...Two of them in fact...
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White is a color too (technically all frequencies) except for some reason these retards want to ignore that fact.
> Otherwise, they end up meaning anything and thus nothing.
Person of Color is a meaningless, bullshit, hijacked, political phrase. The fact that we have to draw attention to a person's color instead of their character is why this is complete bullshit.
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As a minority/brown/latin person, I must since when is someone like Chloe Zhao a "person of color"? To me, I thought the term was used for Black/African-American people (who have suffered systemic discrimination far worse than we Latinos or Asian/Asian-Americans have suffered.)
First, let's be clear: recognising someone else as a lesser-privileged person takes nothing away from the negative experiences and/or circumstances you, your ancestors/progeny, or peers have or are experiencing. The recognition is inclusive, not exclusive.
Second, with people of Asian heritage/descent/visible characteristics being actively and consistently physically and otherwise attacked right now, I don't think anyone can claim that Asian people are not part of an oppressed/disadvantaged class.
Third, if y
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who have suffered systemic discrimination far worse than we Latinos or Asian/Asian-Americans have suffered.
Asian-Americans have faced a LOT of discrimination for a long time. Los Angeles Chinese Massacre of 1871? Page Exclusion act of 1875? Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882? Executive Order 9066 of 1942 (Japanese-American citizen internment)? Attacks on Asian-Americans in 2020 and 2021 due to Covid-19?
There's no need to play 'oppression olympics' here. Just be happy that an Asian-American immigrant has been recognized as a leader in her field.
Aside: I will grant you that treating Hispanic people from Spain as 'p
Re: Woman of Color? (Score:2)
The term means non-white.
Asians are also often referred to as yellow.
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Poor strategy move China! (Score:2)
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It's a good strategy: spread the rumor your movie is anti-China , then before you know it you're nominated for an Oscar and China blocks you.
Tweet, tweet (Score:1)
What a surprise! (Score:2)
The real historic moment here is that the Academy Awards is no longer about merit and more about virtue signalling.