Our Gonzalite friend is wrong about an number of things, but there is real criticism to be made about Deng radically increasing poverty by undercutting the systems installed under Mao that brought poverty to low levels. The “Chinese miracle” was in many respects solving problems that it itself caused and is a sort of liberal historical revisionism, though of course the more contemporary extreme poverty eradication initiative made real headway that was not made under Mao.

That’s hard to say, since the meme began in China, but the widespread adoption in the US probably was connected to racist appeal

A lot of the xinnie the pooh edits are racial caricature, ironically enough (skin tone)

How are they leaning towards tone policing?

The rules lean towards “civility” over the actual content of what is said, which left it vulnerable to “just asking questions” types. It’s being revised after a spat with a TERF who took advantage of those rules.

There’s a very conscious effort from the radlib cliques to close off lemmygrad