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Taiwanese horror game boycotted, removed from China market, company apologizes

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Re: Taiwanese horror game boycotted, removed from China market, company apologizes

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Exposure to difficult, foreign ideas builds up the coping skills to handle dealing with those ideas. People who have been kept in an ideological bubble for their whole lives have conditioned-in panic/rage responses to ideas that go against the assumptions they've been taught to see as universal moral foundations. This isn't a bug; these responses are conditioned into people on purpose by the memeplex in order to make…

> American students from any leftist area facing nearly any conservative points of view on any issue Lol, I love how you single out the left here, as if the American right is any different, haha

They are different.

The academy, K-12 educational establishment, news and entertainment media are all overwhelmingly ruled by exclusionary leftists. A right-winger cannot avoid massive exposure to their ideas and thus develops coping strategies. Left-wingers, on the other hand, can easily reach adulthood without ever having to actually think about and grapple with an argument against e.g. abortion or mass immigration.

Re: Taiwanese horror game boycotted, removed from China market, company apologizes

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> The new horror video game called “Devotion” created an uproar among Chinese netizens when a poster in the game was discovered to mock Chinese leader Xi Jinping, by referring to him as “Winnie the Pooh.” What? That's it? Damn. That's nothing. Maybe free speech being rampant breeds thick skins, maybe free speech is a good thing.

It's not about referring Xi Jinping as Winnie the Pooh, it's about puting Xi Jinping's name on 'a poster with an ancient style Taoist seal' to curse him.

I do not believe this is related to free speech because the font used in seal are rarely use today, most people can not recognize them.

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