return2ozma@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · 10 months agoGOP senator Cotton asks TikTok's CEO over and over if he's ever been part of the Chinese Communist Party. He's Singaporean.www.businessinsider.comexternal-linkmessage-square35fedilinkarrow-up1299arrow-down112
arrow-up1287arrow-down1external-linkGOP senator Cotton asks TikTok's CEO over and over if he's ever been part of the Chinese Communist Party. He's Singaporean.www.businessinsider.comreturn2ozma@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · 10 months agomessage-square35fedilink
minus-squareKptnAutismus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up41arrow-down2·10 months agoas much as i hat how tiktok runs their platform, as well as the CCP and how they run the country, that senator is an asshole trying to make it about him being chinese and all of the discourse attached to that topic.
minus-squarepotustheplant@feddit.nllinkfedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down3·10 months agoHe’s not chinese. Singapore and China are separate countries.
minus-squareKptnAutismus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up8arrow-down2·10 months agoyes exactly, that’s the point
minus-squarepotustheplant@feddit.nllinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·10 months agoI know. You made it sound as if what was wrong was trying to make it about his nationality and not the fact that the guy isn’t even from China.
minus-squareWarlockLawyer@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up7arrow-down3·10 months agoI think the poster meant ethnically since the CEO is only a few generations removed from China.
minus-squarepartial_accumen@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up10·10 months ago I think the poster meant ethnically since the CEO is only a few generations removed from China. Tom Cotton is only a few generations from his Confederate soldier ancestor, a couple more from his slave owning ancestor. source
as much as i hat how tiktok runs their platform, as well as the CCP and how they run the country, that senator is an asshole trying to make it about him being chinese and all of the discourse attached to that topic.
He’s not chinese. Singapore and China are separate countries.
yes exactly, that’s the point
I know. You made it sound as if what was wrong was trying to make it about his nationality and not the fact that the guy isn’t even from China.
I think the poster meant ethnically since the CEO is only a few generations removed from China.
Tom Cotton is only a few generations from his Confederate soldier ancestor, a couple more from his slave owning ancestor. source