Thread. One lady in @LoudMurmurs’s community wechat group works with Chinese adoptees who grew up in the US to reconnect with their birth parents — often underprivileged families. And of course the birth family often only uses wechat. link source
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Izzy
My grandma never figured out how to use WeChat. She couldn’t read so we talked to each other through video chats & audio messages. Every time she left an audio message, no matter how short, she always started it with “hello” and ended it with “goodbye.” My…
@Oneoneder @AskAKorean agreed. And it's not limited to Ams (white or black), but a cross-cultural phenomenon. e.g. I wrote about how contemporary Chinese liberal intellectuals project their anxieties & perspectives to Am, drawing incredibly wrong conclusions & idolizing Trump link source
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Yao Lin 林垚
The official version of my article, "Beaconism and the Trumpian Metamorphosis of Chinese Liberal Intellectuals" (Journal of Contemporary China, DOI: 10.1080/10670564.2020.1766911 ) has come out this morning: tandfonline.com/eprint/ZFYVCFD… Please read, share…
“Childcare care is basic infrastructure. If you want this economy to work, if you want to boost our G.D.P., or now, during a pandemic, if you want to get people back to work, then we need to make a national investment.” link source
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Elizabeth Warren Says Child Care Is Key to Bringing the Economy Back
The senator on child care during a pandemic: “Women continue to have to manage it all.”
@TankMan737 普选票协议本来就不是要改宪法(修宪门槛太高)，而是通过州之间达成一致，共同支持全国普选票的胜者。如果只是各州自己去放弃赢者通吃，那先改的州就吃亏了，结果就是没几个州愿意改。 source
@AskAKorean I happened to be watching Netflix science documentary Connected today (a really great show btw) & was shocked by the guest's straight-faced distortion of history & the host's leaving it uncorrected: "before Pearl Harbor only Europe was at war & Japan was not involved." Asia: ??? source
I asked my six month old the same question and she said,
“The false dichotomy in the premise of this question proves the ongoing need for feminism. You would never ask a boy to choose between procreation and professional fulfillment” link source
“The false dichotomy in the premise of this question proves the ongoing need for feminism. You would never ask a boy to choose between procreation and professional fulfillment” link source
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Ben Shapiro
I asked my 4-year-old daughter this morning whether she thought it would be more fun to have a job or be a mommy. She said, "To be a mommy, so I can cuddle my babies." Clearly, she has already been victimized by the patriarchy.
Let’s be clear. WeChat isn’t a universal plus for the Chinese diaspora in US: it’s been used to monitor & pressure ppl. I hope alternatives w/fewer costs can be adopted quickly. But we shd be realistic that this does impose costs for Chinese gov’t action onto the Chinese people. link source
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Sheena Greitens
There are legitimate concerns w/ WeChat censorship & surveillance. My heart also aches for Chinese-Americans who already can’t visit relatives, & now may lose video chats w/them also. Targeting WeChat, Trump Takes Aim at China’s Bridge to World: https://t.co/WOOBu1m4Bk