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A draft law banning speech and dressing “detrimental to the spirit of Chinese people” has sparked debate in China.
If the law comes into force, people found guilty could be fined or jailed but the proposal does not yet spell out what constitutes a violation.
Social media users and legal experts have called for more clarity to avoid excessive enforcement.
China recently released a swathe of proposed changes to its public security laws - the first reforms in decades.
The clothing law has drawn immediate reaction from the public - with many online criticising it as excessive and absurd.
The contentious clauses suggest that people who wear or force others to wear clothing and symbols that “undermine the spirit or hurt the feelings of the Chinese nation” could be detained for up to 15 days and fined up to 5,000 yuan ($680; £550).
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but the proposal does not yet spell out what constitutes a violation.
and this is not a coincidence. Authoritarian states love vaguely operationalized definitions like this because it’s basically a blanko check to arrest anyone at any time. And it puts the populace into a fearful, fatalist mindset of “I could be arrested at any time for bogus charges, even if I did nothing wrong.”
BORN TO DIE
WORLD IS A FUCK
Kill Em All 1989
I am trash man
410,757,864,530 DEAD COPS
? You alright?
They are listing all the printed t-shirts I have. Funny side story, while teaching in Japan, I’ve taught grannies with printed shirts that said stuff like this and they didnt understand. They thought it was cute and had foreign words. I think they needed to study more before their lessons.
Ohhhhhhhhh
Haha these shirts are actually kinda funny in this context 😂
Idk banning stuff is probably detrimental and a slippery slope but idk. Probably shouldn’t have your countries people running around with vial shit on their clothes (yeah yeah freedom of freedom with extra freedom and no responsibility, but like hitler tho.)
Idk tough topic, knowing China though it’s probably just another power grab for them to take from their people. Cringe af no cap
“Missouri: the show me state” I have seen that shirt quite a few times in Asia. No, I didn’t ask any of them about it.
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Nice
Of course you’re in a thread like this.
Ayyyy it’s this cunthole!
This creates a funny image in my mind.
Does this implies we are about to see the comeback of the blue and brown clothing of the Mao era or can we expect the return of the imperial style to the rulling class?
This is awful and wrong and a violation of the human rights of the citizens of that country. Thankfully, we don’t let the government decide what people are allowed to wear here in the good ol US of A…doesnt matter how many conservatives’ feelings are hurt. Small government and all that…
It’s always strange to see a member of the most incarcerated population on the planet wax lyrical about how free they are.
Not to defend China here at all.
It’s always strange to see a member of the most incarcerated population on the planet wax lyrical about how free they are.
The US is actually #6: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_incarceration_rate
Obviously that’s still not great.
That’s my bad. Thanks for the correction.
Thanks for having a good attitude to criticism!
Guess you didn’t catch the sarcasm dripping off that entire statement? I wasn’t even talking about our incarceration problem, I was referencing all the anti-trans and anti-drag legislation the conservative states have been passing. Literally, the “small government” idiots legislating what clothes people can wear in public…
Guess not, that’s probably my bad.
drag
I urge y’all to look up laowhy86 on YouTube and look at his Beijing flood video. Or even the last few videos tbh.
Zhao Hong, a law professor at the Chinese University of Political Science and Law said the lack of clarity could lead to an infringement of personal.
Adorable that anyone is suggesting this is a bug, not a feature.
It’s fun to compare the comments on this story to the ones about France banning various kinds of clothing!
Honestly, I feel the same about both: it’s absurd. With France I get the “freedom from religion” spiel from some Frenchman, but it’s veiled xenophobia to me. When you ban a kind of clothing but only for one group of people, that’s basically the definition. Here, it’s just fascism. At least the Chinese people are speaking out.
France doesn’t ban religious anything, only in public schools, that’s all. Outside education people are free to do what they want. What China is doing is wildly different, China just bans things in general for all sectors of life
Public school? You mean that place that children are mandated to be? Also you forgot government. It was a whole thing. So if you’re a Muslim and you want to be a part of the French government, then I hope you don’t have any attachment to those head scarves. There are other religions ornamentation, but the head scarves one was the last one I saw. And whether school or a DMV clerk, it’s dumb.
Also noticed I used two different labels for France rather than China. I think China is fascist with what they’re doing. France is xenophobic with what they’re doing.
France is the least Xenophobic country on Earth, what are you even saying?
The French didn’t ban for only one group of people, all religions are affected.
It targeted one group of people though.
Either way banning clothes is stupid.
Other groups of people have been affected in the past. The Muslims are just the current latest group affected by it.
Either way banning clothes is stupid.
They have pretty sound logic for doing it
Other groups of people have been affected in the past. The Muslims are just the current latest group affected by it.
Any recent examples?
They have pretty sound logic for doing it
What’s the logic?
Yeah this is equality vs equity. If your religion has no religious outfits it doesn’t impact you if your religion does it does impact you. You can’t make a rule that only impacts one minority group and claim that it is fair because it hurts everyone the same way, since it clearly doesn’t.
My comments were about the same. As much as I hate religion you have every right to express it. French students should be able to wear religious symbols and garments in schools, the CCP should not be going after this shit, men have a right to sag their pants. I can go on but I think my point is clear, freedom includes the freedom to be offensive or it means nothing.
Yeah? How about closing those sweatshops that pollute Chinese rivers, drinking water, that destroys soil so that plants can never grow again, where Chinese works inhale colorant and chemicals… how about that shit, CCP?
But then how is the CCP supposed to get money for more PR campaigns that magically don’t ever show those parts of China?
This is the best summary I could come up with:
A draft law banning speech and dressing “detrimental to the spirit of Chinese people” has sparked debate in China.
The proposed legal changes also forbid “insulting, slandering or otherwise infringing upon the names of local heroes and martyrs” as well as vandalism of their memorial statues.
Would its presence in China also count as hurting national feelings," one user posted on Chinese Twitter-like platform Weibo.
She cited one case that drew headlines in China last year where a kimono-clad woman was detained in the city of Suzhou and accused of “picking quarrels and provoking trouble” because she had worn the Japanese garment.
In March this year, police detained a woman donning a replica of a Japanese military uniform at a night market.
And earlier last month, people who wore rainbow print clothing were denied entry to a concert by Taiwanese singer Chang Hui-mei in Beijing.
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hey so does that mean they’re gonna stop making Japanese street fashion clothes over there? I use to buy directly from TaoBao and a few years ago lolita was still pretty popular in China.
Is china hoping to become more like north korea?
ban assless chaps
Mandate assless chaps!
All chaps are by definition assless.
Lock this man up
department of redundancy, etc.
I’m unable to find the original Chinese, but couldn’t “hurt national feelings” just as well be translated as “do emotional damage”? Like walking around London 1997 with a shirt that said “Princess Di deserved to die”? Now while that aint illegal in the UK (as far as I know) it’s at least a little less ridiculous to talk about trauma from events that affect a nation rather than this dismissive right-wing language of “hurt national feelings”.
(this is not a pro-CCP comment please give me the benefit of the doubt)
wearing a t-shirt saying an actual valued member of the royal family deserved to die likely would get you arrested in the UK, regardless of the legality of it
It’s understandable, the way people dress is very important to creating a good environment. As a business owner I strictly enforce a dress code for my employees whether their job is forward facing or not. No clothes with political (BLM/pride) messages, no shorts, women must wear heels and makeup, etc. I asked my employees to also follow the dress code while working from home during the pandemic but I had a gut feeling that many of them were not doing so which is part of why I insisted they come back to the office as soon as COVID disappeared.
I really hope you understand the downvotes. It could change your life.
This seems like a parody account. Look at the username.
