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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 Chinese U 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 Oz-Chinese stand-up comedians 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!
