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minus-squareaxont [she/her, comrade/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 year agoI’m still trying to figure out why CCP is the preferred thing in America. It’s either to emphasize the “Chinese” part (scary foreigners) or make it look more like CCCP. I have no idea.
minus-squaresooper_dooper_roofer [none/use name]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 year agoCCCP was the triple communist party communism is a lil bit weaker now so it’s just the CCP
minus-squareaxont [she/her, comrade/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoI’d rather not be reduced to one C in that acronym
minus-squarePluto [he/him, he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoIt was how Westerners initially translated it, but it’s not how the CPC prefers it now so I can only view it as a slight.
minus-squareaxont [she/her, comrade/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoOh, so it’s just western stubbornness like always, I get it. Same reason why I still hear westerners refer to “Burma”
I’m still trying to figure out why CCP is the preferred thing in America. It’s either to emphasize the “Chinese” part (scary foreigners) or make it look more like CCCP. I have no idea.
CCCP was the triple communist party
communism is a lil bit weaker now so it’s just the CCP
I’d rather not be reduced to one C in that acronym
It was how Westerners initially translated it, but it’s not how the CPC prefers it now so I can only view it as a slight.
Oh, so it’s just western stubbornness like always, I get it. Same reason why I still hear westerners refer to “Burma”