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| Today’s South China Morning Post and the bemusing news that we’ll be given free-to-air “lighthearted patriotic |
Virtually all other commenters are mocking this whole project. And rightly so. Apparatchiks and their dopey dreams. “You will be happy!”
Meanwhile, some are getting their knickers in a twist over Chinese stand-up in Australia being self-deprecating. Online (50-cent army?) they call it being “race traitors”, for goodness sake! We’ve got “assistant professors of cultural studies” at the Chinese Univeristy of HK (my alma mater) telling us what’s funny, now? Bizarre.
I commented that in the US, stand-up originated with Jewish males, mostly, and blacks, all of whom make merciless fun of their Jewishness, maleness, blackness.
China-based critics who yell “race traitor” at the Australian-Chinese stand-up comics need to grow up. The couple of snippets quoted are pretty funny. All women, by the way.
PS: I am looking forward to the weekly half-hour of “lighthearted patriotic programming” — with HK characteristics 🤔. I’m sure it’ll be pretty funny itself, if only unintentionally!
