Western leftists are so eager to talk politics on Little Red Book and the Chinese users are like
Western leftists are so eager to talk politics on Little Red Book and the Chinese users are like
You are welcome here but please don’t talk politics. This isn’t Baidu Tieba. I just want pictures of your cat.
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what are some example of common discourse considered "divisive" on Little Red Book?
Palestine is one example. A lot of the TikTok crowd are gungho free palestiners and that is not the general vibe on xhs
Well that's not very good then is it
Obviously not. You take the good with the bad just like every social media; yes bad that political discussions like Palestine aren’t present. Good that discussions about jobs, healthcare, language learning, and socialism with Chinese characteristics are.
Yeah fair, but cmon it's genocide it makes me sad they also don't care
In the little discourse I’ve seen, people support Palestine and oppose the genocide, it’s just not the app for that (yet? There’s been a huge uptick since yesterday) per the government. Definitely not defending it, just pointing out the benefits and downsides to the platform
that is not the general vibe on xhs
what's xhs?
Xiaohongshu, in English people call it RedNote or Little Red Book
Lazy American can’t type xiaohongshu
typing the first letter of characters for an abbreviation isn't american laziness, Chinese speakers frequently do it too, and it's an easy way of typing common words with Pinyin input, for e.g. typing XHS brings up a list of words including tomato (xihongshi), vibrant red (xian hongse) and Xinhua news agency (xinhua she)
To be fair
I’ve already got the keyboard installed, I’m ready to go type 小红书 if I had to
Next language I'm learning is Mandarin just give me a year or two to really perfect my Spanish
So far, adding subtitles to videos and what language to type in. Not so much in a “hey you’re bad” sort of way as in a “hey this is important and everyone’s talking about it” sort of way