I swear to god, I am not exaggerating or making up any part of this.
So I was working my part-time job at a bookstore as a shop assistant earlier today, and this customer comes up to the information counter. By his accent, I would probably guess that he's mainland Chinese of some sort (not 100% sure, and I can't be any more specific; I'm just a Malaysian Chinese borderline-banana with severely atrophied Chinese communication skills because I basically only consume western books and media).
Anyway, this guy walked up to me and immediately asked whether we have any copies of "希特勒的《我的奋斗》", specifically the Chinese translation published in Singapore. (Yup, that's Mein Kampf.)
Okay, he's probably interested in WW2 or studying history or something. I searched the bookstore's internal database. No stock available.
Then I did a quick online search to see if our usual suppliers have any copies in stock, to see if we can order a copy for this customer. There seem to be separate translations published in Singapore and in Taiwan. The Singaporean version doesn't seem available, whereas the Taiwanese version is very well-stocked and readily available for ordering.
So, while waiting for me find all this information, the guy got a little chatty. I didn't even ask him anything beyond asking if he would still be interested in the Taiwanese translation. The guy said to me (and I did not make any part of this up, I swear) that "我真的很喜欢读这本书", and "这一本书，在中国买不到" (i.e "I really like reading this book", and "You can't buy this book in China").
What the fuck. Why would you even say that out loud? Do you even know what you're saying? Of course you do, you Nazi fuck. But why would you say it to my face? Do you think I wouldn't understand what you meant by that, you goddamned psycho? Did you think that I was a stupid liberal, or that I was one of your compatriots? Just because I was trying to do my job and didn't put a bullet in your skull immediately after you finished your very first sentence to me? What the fuck.
Anyway, it turned out that it would take too long to get a copy from our Taiwanese supplier, and that this customer would already be back in China by the time the copy would arrive from Taiwan. I guess that's a happy ending of a sort.
Anyway, uncritical support for the heroic anti-fascist efforts of President Xi and the Communist Party of China, truly 没有共产党就没有新中国. Hopefully (:xi-plz: ), this guy gets a very nice :fash-bash: whenever he returns to his home country, courtesy of our boy :anarxi:, preferably involving judicious amounts of :xi-gun: :xi-reactionary-spotted: .
whereas the Taiwanese version is very well-stocked and readily available for ordering
:huh:
But why would Nazi literature be in demand in Taiwan? Aren't they a liberal and capitalist nation? :surprised-pika:
Chinese far right wingers (mainlanders, taiwanese ,overseas) get a hard on when they see Chiang Kai Shek's son all dressed up in his Nazi Uniform.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiang_Wei-kuo
WTF he literally drove a Wehrmacht tank into Austria during the Anschluss :agony-soviet:
when :reddit-logo: hears about this, they'll start including Austria in their list of countries that belong to Taiwan
I think Taiwan is the country with the Nazi themed prom lol https://youtu.be/UEcBF3jQ27c check out the epic comments
imagine going into a bookstore, and just saying that you unironically want to get that book
:so-true: "hello good sir shopkeep, I would like one copy of Adolf Hitler's 'Mein Kampf' (1925) please! Oh, no need to wrap it up, I'll be wearing this bad boy out of the store."
Chinese Nazi is uhhh definitely a type of guy
Death to America
"I really like reading this book" implies that he's read it multiple times. It's safe to wager that he's at least dabbling in far-right conspiracies.
I'm sorry, this just needs to accompany his name wherever it's mentioned:
Hissing, hackles lifting, the chicken’s head rose. Kahlan pulled back. Its claws digging into stiff dead flesh, the chicken slowly turned to face her. It cocked its head, making its comb flop, its wattles sway. “Shoo,” Kahlan heard herself whisper. There wasn’t enough light, and besides, the side of its beak was covered with gore, so she couldn’t tell if it had the dark spot, But she didn’t need to see it. “Dear spirits, help me,” she prayed under her breath. The bird let out a slow chicken cackle. It sounded like a chicken, but in her heart she knew it wasn’t. In that instant, she completely understood the concept of a chicken that was not a chicken. This looked like a chicken, like most of the Mud People’s chickens. But this was no chicken. This was evil manifest.
I've read Mien Kampf and 'enjoyed' was not a word I'd use to describe it. It's like reading Ayn Rand, where, if the ideology involved hadn't caused untold amounts of suffering, it would be really funny. And to some degree it still is ironically funny, like if the 'She denies him pies these days' opinion columnist became a dictator. Like the sheer amount of loathsome whining Hitler does in that book is incredible.
I skimmed it, I don't even think it's that deep. It's like the early 20th century German version of if you let some racist boomer talk for too long and tried to turn what they said into a book. It's just uninteresting.
Honestly, that is more than fair. At least the 'She denies him pies these days' guy (edit: Jon Kass) was a decent writer.
Reading this post reminded me that a few weeks ago, while waiting for my lunch order, I saw a full blown nazi skinhead walking down the street, but he was flanked by two black women so I THINK they had it under control. But I'm at the point in my life where I don't believe nazis should feel safe showing their faces publicly so next time I don't get to eat my delicious veg fried chicken sandwich and have to confront a nazi instead.
Yeah man I really hate the CPC and how they looks at smudged writing on hand lifted a billion people out of poverty
I talked to a really young lady in mainland China who said there is a very strong rising nationalist element which she seemed worried about. I guess this would be a second data point for this idea.
Nah, Chinese ultranationalists would be pulling from 5000 years of Chinese history, not caring about what some shitty Austrian painter thinks lol
Maybe? Like I said, I'm a borderline banana, and quite out-of-touch with any trends in the wider Sinosphere, but I would've guessed that Chinese nationalism would have a left-wing flavour or at least invoke past Chinese leaders, instead of a western leader who famously exterminated Communists, and explicitly considered non-Aryans subhuman, and most importantly were allied with Japan in WW2?
Open to being proven wrong though. Ideology can often be incoherent of course.
I don’t think most Chinese nationalists are glorifying Hitler lol. It’s definitely conservative, but people like Mao and Xi are still the primary icons as well as communist symbols. It’s a bit like Russian nationalism of marching with picture of Stalin and Nicholas. But if Chinese and western media are to be believed, Xi is a Marxist Leninist who’s tired of the straying ideology of the party and seeks to make it more socialist.
Chinese nationalists glorify various dynastic rulers and historical heroes, not Hitler lol. We do have weird KMT supporters that focus a little too much on the part of Chinese history where the Wehrmacht trained and supplied the ROC though.
Had a guy come in at work once who wore a shirt that said "black lives dont matter"
Alright ACAB and all that, but I would report this little chud to Chinese security services right then haha
:stalin-gun-1: :stalin-gun-2:
Maybe this person enjoys reading this book knowing Hitler domed himself at the end of things? This’d be an extremely generous reading of their intention.
thanks for the story, brought me to this proto Blue MAGA out of China:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Shirts_Society
seems like PatSocs et al is not really a entirely new thing, just a return to the well of bad ideas
