To try to steelman the argument, I believe the main point can be expressed as follows;
1. China is trying to censor Wikimedia at the world stage for their political purposes
2. Some Social Justice related groups have similar outlooks towards using censorship against their opponents. If we don't stop them, we will have their preferred flavour of censorship imposed on us, with widespread suffering of non-conformers. This will follow the pattern of Communist China during the cultural revolution.
The reason for the deliberate vagueness is that the idea is overly dramatized and only tangentially related to the topic at hand.
We already have the censorship they complain about; it is social mores. Decent people don't use terms derogatory terms towards strangers in public places. They don't scrutinize the background of every Oxy patient in order to determine whether or not they deserve to die.
As for out groups being ostracized from society; well yes? I think that's generally the case everywhere. If you don't fit into the morals of a larger society, you aren't going to have a good time.
The implicit threat, though, is nonsense. Communist China in the 1960s was a complete top-down command society and Mao was using his cult of personality to try to regain influence (potentially influenced by the Gang of Four). Is there anyone in the US who actually has that kind of influence over all of society? If anything, the only person I know who claims influence over a portion of American Society is DJT - and he can't even convince his followers to get vaccinated without getting booed.
I don't really feel much sympathy for the argument.
1. China is trying to censor Wikimedia at the world stage for their political purposes
2. Some Social Justice related groups have similar outlooks towards using censorship against their opponents. If we don't stop them, we will have their preferred flavour of censorship imposed on us, with widespread suffering of non-conformers. This will follow the pattern of Communist China during the cultural revolution.
The reason for the deliberate vagueness is that the idea is overly dramatized and only tangentially related to the topic at hand.
We already have the censorship they complain about; it is social mores. Decent people don't use terms derogatory terms towards strangers in public places. They don't scrutinize the background of every Oxy patient in order to determine whether or not they deserve to die.
As for out groups being ostracized from society; well yes? I think that's generally the case everywhere. If you don't fit into the morals of a larger society, you aren't going to have a good time.
The implicit threat, though, is nonsense. Communist China in the 1960s was a complete top-down command society and Mao was using his cult of personality to try to regain influence (potentially influenced by the Gang of Four). Is there anyone in the US who actually has that kind of influence over all of society? If anything, the only person I know who claims influence over a portion of American Society is DJT - and he can't even convince his followers to get vaccinated without getting booed.
I don't really feel much sympathy for the argument.