RoomAndBored [he/him, any]

hello weary traveller. please won’t you sit amd rest a while

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Joined 1 year ago
Cake day: June 5th, 2023
  • RoomAndBored [he/him, any]@hexbear.nettoAnime@lemmy.ml•Alternative anime to Demon Slayer suitable for 9 year old?English
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    9 months ago

    Yeah that makes sense. Unfortunately if it’s the maturity that’s appealing, then anything that’s ‘age appropriate’ may seem uncool by comparison.

    I guess with Pokemon, the trick could be just to put episodes on anyway and see if that can supplant whatever other shows she may have previously zeroed in on. There’s a reason why Pokemon is as popular as it is.

    If the show doesn’t have to be recent but still would need to be that sword fighter type of anime, you could try to introduce shows like Rurouni Kenshin or Inuyasha when appropriate. There’s still violence but not on the level of Demon Slayer. You can check the Parents’ Guide (this one for Inuyasha) on IMDB for advice on content and themes. I guess it’s up to you to determine what’s right for your child, so please don’t take these as out and out recommendations.

    Edit: It turns out there’s a 2023 remake of Rurouni Kenshin. Here’s the Parents’ Guide for that series.

  • RoomAndBored [he/him, any]@hexbear.nettoComradeship // Freechat@lemmygrad.ml•Why does it say nothing about the 1989 protests on Tiananmen Square, Beijing?English
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    10 months ago

    The Government is spoken for:

    中央政治局在邓小平和其他老一辈革命家坚决有力的支持下，依靠人民，旗帜鲜明地反对动乱，并采取果断措施，在6月4日一举平息反革命暴乱，捍卫了社会主义国家政权，维护了人民的根本利益。

    Rather than taking it as a difficult but decisive course of action, your comment implicitly accepts Western recreations that it was entirely a mistake, and something worthy of guilt.

    I reiterate my previous point that these interpretations of the event are understandable, given the absence of ready access fulsome documentation from China’s side. I think China is or will soon be strong enough to publically face these histories online with maturity and nuance. Though currently with intense USA muck raking it may still be iffy.

    Like you, I find the deaths surrounding 6/4 in whatever quantum regrettable. However I reject that you appear to be accepting the outsider perspective of the events seemingly whole cloth.

  • RoomAndBored [he/him, any]@hexbear.nettoComradeship // Freechat@lemmygrad.ml•Why does it say nothing about the 1989 protests on Tiananmen Square, Beijing?English
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    10 months ago

    July?

    I don’t see you interacting with Eat_Yo or my comments btw. Accepting your arguments in good faith, I’m going to say that I think you’ve misunderstood two things

    1. The Party doesn’t view the (Western named) Tiananmen Incident of 4th of June in isolation. It was an event over a series and escalation of political disturbances leading up to that day. To take that day as the ‘Event’ is to miss the forest for the trees. It is understandable that the Party would not consider the pacification of the Square as an ‘achievement’, and I believe the links we’ve provided reinforce this view.
    2. Yes China does censor information around the event. I don’t have the chops to really go in to defend this at the moment, but I appreciate that Western reportage on that period is lightning rod and source of misinformation and reaction. They most likely limit it to curtail those elements.