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Blizzard Suspends Professional Hearthstone Player for Hong Kong Comments

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2525 points hownottowrite | 1 comments | 08 Oct 19 09:23 UTC | HN request time: 0.204s | source
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ReptileMan ◴[08 Oct 19 10:01 UTC] No.21190465[source]▶
This is shaping to be fun tactic in the culture war. To force corporations that want to be seen as woke in the west to bow to China which will hurt their image at home.

If someone manages to do it with Nike it will be fun to watch.

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atroche ◴[08 Oct 19 10:11 UTC] No.21190523[source]▶
How is bowing to China woke? Not following.
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ReptileMan ◴[08 Oct 19 10:13 UTC] No.21190535[source]▶
You don't get it. It is not woke. That is the fun part. To make them dance morally in the chase of profit. To put them in between the blue checkmarks and the china government and to end pissing off both sides.
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atroche ◴[08 Oct 19 10:22 UTC] No.21190603[source]▶
Oh, okay. It seems to me like being critical of the Chinese government is popular with both sides of the American political spectrum. Maybe even more so with conservatives!
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ReptileMan ◴[08 Oct 19 10:29 UTC] No.21190658[source]▶
Yeah, but claiming moral high ground for boycotting Georgia over transgender bathrooms is hard while simultaneously doing business with China with the Uygur and Hong Kong situations.
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atroche ◴[08 Oct 19 10:42 UTC] No.21190752[source]▶
Agreed! But (in the example of the Georgia boycott) who exactly is going to use the tactic you mentioned of forcing a company to bow to China? In concrete terms, how do you see that playing out?
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1. prepend ◴[08 Oct 19 11:41 UTC] No.21191121[source]▶
Not OP. But actors and companies calling for boycott of Georgia for unjust abortion laws are not voicing similar boycotts of China over HK, uyghurs, etc. I try to avoid whataboutism, but it’s hard not to notice how boycotting Georgia has a pretty negligible impact to bottom lines, but boycotting China (or even saying things like “freedom for HK”) results in being cut out of China for films.

I think the reason we don’t see lots of actors talking about HK is that it could mean that if they are in a future film it will be harder to market in China. Producers know this. Actors know producers know this.