“Foreigners give you HIV and make you pregnant, and then leave”

wow. holy shit this is just terrible

Speaking of anti-foreigner bias, I should add that what Yang Rui said pales in comparison to a full-fledged TV show on what terrible people foreign men are.

I know we don’t like to pull equivalency here, but this shit is just so egregious it deserves mention. The fact that this was produced by MBC, Korea’s largest broadcasting network, as a prime-time special means that unlike the rants of one or two people, this is what the system itself thinks. That’s extremely disturbing.

Just goes to show what a pathetic bag of shit the Global Times is. It’s always the case that more people complain than applaud in public, even if the majority is content. Governments just have to live with it. You can’t tell people with complaints to shut up because it’s spoiling the atmosphere. Maybe if the CCP took its finger out over issues like rule of law, corruption, income disparity, lack of public services, etc there might be less people complaining without the need to silence them.

That being said, I do agree that the nature of internet discourse skews the discussion towards an over-representation of discontent. There’s an inherent selection and responder bias in those who go online and choose to comment, such that it is not scientifically reliable as a gauge of overall opinion. I guess the CCP is getting tired of just deleting stuff, and wishes to more directly affect the discussion.