The Big [Censored] Theory

Then no sarcasm is allowed which is an important measure to critize a state and its behaviour.

> (2) defaming Chinese military forces, policemen, and judiciary;

Same as for (1), making these groups "untouchable" and "uncritizeable" (if that's a word)

> (3) showcasing obscenity content, either visual or verbal;

Who defines "obscene"? The Ministry of Truth? The president? The government? Your mother?

> (4) showcasing “excessive” images of murder, violence, horror, interrogation, drug-taking, and even gambling;

Is there any movie where such display is not used as a negative example in the end or to explore the boundaries of human downfall? Tony Montana is not really the hero in the end, same goes for Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill or Fight Club.

> (5) advertise negative and decadent values or deliberately exaggerate the negative part of society;

Yeah, please don't put your finger where it hurts, we don't like that so much, someone could have a bad opinion of a broken state.

> (6) advocate religious extremism;

"Being Christian" is enough to be considered extremist in China, I think. Or let's ask the Uigurs how well these rules work for them.

> (7) advocate environmental destruction and animal torture;

Especially China is very good at the practical side of this, really no need to make movies about that. Besides that: Are there any movies where animals are tortured?

> (8) excessively showcase alcohol addiction, smoking, or other bad habits;

Same as with (4).

> (9) demonstrate other illegal content.

Bingo. Wildcard.

> How would simply not putting this kind of negative stuff in our media not benefit us?

You can't simply close your eyes and hope everything will get better by itself.

Here, let’s talk about the person who literally replied to your post. Quoting it since I’m sure they will, rightfully, get banned.

> Btw, tolerance, like democracy is just a bulls$##t concept. Would you like to be tolerant of the neo-trans man going to the same toilet as your teenage daughters??? [wawjgreen] [1]

This is hate speech. This is not an expression of belief or rational argument. It’s not even an argument at all, it’s just an emotional appeal to transphobia with the goal of changing your perception of trans women to that of man who is out to sexually assault teen girls, and a direct call to not tolerate them (i.e suppress their speech). Couldn’t have asked for a better example to just fall into the thread.

In contrast, someone expressing a belief or making an actual argument like, “I know that not allowing trans men and women to use the bathroom that matches their gender will cause them dysphoria, but as a matter of public policy here is why I think bathroom bills are necessary…” is not transphobia and is speech that should be tolerated.

[1] And also take a moment to appreciate an IRL instance of accidental-ally. Obviously we don’t want trans men in the women’s restroom.

The world probably had much better visual media then.

If we can joke about cops (reno 911), bar owners (it's always sunny in philadelphia), rural americans (king of the hill and many, many other), canadians (south park), italians (euro trip), gingers (south park), nerds (pretty much every college movie), french girls (malcolm in the middle), middle managers (basically, every office-based movie), bodybuilders (brooklyn 99), "aspiring actresses" (working as baristas), student cooks (usually by gordon ramsey), .... why not us? Oh and let's not forget blondes.

Do you assume all italians wear stockings and molest other guys on trains if you've seen Eurotrip (movie)? Nope. Do you assume all french girls don't shave? Nope. So if the whole of the balkans, including bosnia has many many jokes with "Mujo and Haso" (they represent a "stupid" couple of guys, where the pun is in their stupidity, why do you (I assume you're not from the balkans) get to be offended for other people? There's even a movie just with jokes about them... made by bosnians of course - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5085118/

We also have regional jokes, where in slovenia, people assume that people from gorenjska region are stingy (in serbia, it's people from pirot).

A joke is a joke, you don't have to get offended for other people.

edit: also, we don't start wars because we thing the others are subhuman, we just stereotipically hate eachother (as groups, not as individuals), due to historic reasons, mostly war-related.

ps: What you americans would call racism could only be mentioned maybe against gypsies here (eve though they're techncally the same race). And even that is mostly by assuming, that if someone stole your gutters around the house (or basically anything metal), that it was the gypsies. Usually it's even true.