Bullshit. Xi Jinpeng is President for life now. There is Chinese Democracy I suppose... in Taiwan. Which is under threat by Xi, just as there was democracy in Hong Kong before Xi snuffed that out.

Also the Nazis valued racial homogeneity, did that result in more democracy and freedoms?

You're trying to make the facts fit a racist narrative. The reality is that cultural changes result from living in a free society. The culture doesn't change in the same way in all places. The only way to have homogeneity is under an authoritative regime that forces people to all live the same lives. That isn't freedom.

FFS there has been two languages in Canada for it's entire existence. We've never been homogenous.

[–] ProudCanadianCitizen@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You are trying to make my comments fit your racist narrative. It is obvious from your comments that you are anti-Chinese. You denigrate their entire culture and society in your blanket statements over the form of government they chose. It is very evident that you consider them not smart enough to determine their own destination and that only the White West has the intelligence to create a 'proper' government for them, that only the White West has the ability to form a 'free society'. The Chinese peoples themselves have collectively and of their own free will decided on the governance system they want, and Xi has their overwhelming collective support and backing. But according to you those poor misguided inferior Chinese need the White West to determine what the Chinese want for themselves, and to force the White ideals onto the backwards Chinese. Oh, wait, that DID happen to the Chinese during the opium wars. Mao completely undid that bondage to Whites, and the Whites have never forgiven him for freeing the Chinese from White oppression. Taiwan is nothing more than the last vestiges of this colonialism.

Incidentally, recent polls in Taiwan indicate that as the evidence for the success of the mainland Chinese government become evident in improving the lifestyle of the Chinese, the illusion of the benefits of so-called 'democracy' in Taiwan is losing its luster . https://www.taiwanplus.com/news/taiwan-news/taiwan-china-relations/260616005/poll-finds-smaller-majority-opposing-beijings-one-china-principle

And I never claimed that homogeneity would lead to democracy, but that perhaps democracy could only function in a homogeneous society. They are not the same statement. Stop twisting my words to fit your narrative. There are far more countries tending towards homogeneity in the world than there are multicultural, with a mix of democratic vs autocratic governments among them. Iran vs Iraq, for instance.

[–] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

So people in Taiwan and Hong Kong not Chinese now? You support the oppression of Chinese people, so if anyone is anti-Chinese, it's you. I support the freedom of Chinese people.

And I never claimed that homogeneity would lead to democracy, but that perhaps democracy could only function in a homogeneous society.

Again... Canada has never been homogenous. "Homogeneity" means oppressing those that are different from the ruler. That's always the hallmark of authoritarianism.

[–] ProudCanadianCitizen@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 days ago

Canada has had a really rough go with democracy ever since it was formed as a nation. From the very beginning, the primary factor that has kept Canada together is not democracy, but external threat. Whatever form of democracy we have, exists as an illusion to try to keep everything together - the default option. The war between the British and the French ended in a truce and a treaty with a shared power structure between the two factions, not a decisive victory and conquest of one side over the other. Since no region would ever consent to an autocratic government by any other region, and not having a form of governance would mean the regions of Canada were easy pickings for the States, our form of Parliamentary Democracy with clear division of powers ( a split of power between local homogeneous regions and an overall Federal governance for defense and self-protection) appears to be a barely workable solution.

It is you who insists that the Chinese people are so backward as an ethnic group and as a people that they are (or should be) allowing themselves to be oppressed. It is clear that your opinion of them seems that they are so primitive as a people that they must allow themselves to be ruled by White Western ideology in order to be 'civilized'. It is clearly my position that the Chinese peoples have gained their collective freedom from White Western colonial tyranny and are no longer suffering from being oppressed by anyone, let alone their own government. The peoples of China are almost unanimously behind their government and its form of governance. The peoples of colonial Taiwan (having been pushed to the Island by the Chinese revolution that overthrew the racist White Western colonial rule that so bitterly oppressed the Chinese) and the former tyrannical government of the colonial Hong Hong (which beyond all doubt, clearly oppressed the typical 'citizen' of the Hong Kong colony) were so dehumanized by Western money that they had lost all sense of what it means to be a part of the thousands of years old Chinese society and culture. The Chinese people collectively, and almost unanimously, have chosen to return China to its historical humanist cultural glory, and they have chosen Xi to lead them there. And they are not going to allow the racist oppressors of the White West to prevent them from doing so no matter what the lies you try to spread about them.