白左
Baizou is a Chinese word that refers to those Europeans and Americans who speak “love and peace” everyday but do not know the difficulty of survival and the complexity of the real world. It is directed primarily at what the Chinese refer to as as the "regressive left".
China is a nation of 1.4 Billion people who are ruled by a government that remembers their national history during Mao's regime when a cultural revolution decimated the ranks of the educated elite of their nation. As commentators on what is happening in Europe, Britain, America, Australia, New Zealand, etc the Chinese have a hidden agenda but nonetheless they are onto something real. Of course the Chinese are laughing at the culture revolution that is crippling the West but surely we should not join them in their mirth. Instead, perhaps, we should study more closely how the Chinese recovered from the aberration that was the Mao Gang of Four rule of their nation.
One truth that comes from the term Baizou is the astute implication that people who are leading the woke revolution in the West "do not know the difficulty of survival and the complexity of the real world". One blessings of the woke revolution is that the right and left tags of political movements are obsolete. In their place we have the woke [Utopians] and the independents [Unaffiliated].
As I look around Europe from my perch here in Prague I see what the Chinese recognise as the complexity of the real world. We can all see that this complexity has created a funk. And so the key question I have for the Baizou is "how long will this version of the cultural revolution persist and when will we all know that it is finally over?"
Richard.
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