//…According to Fang Kecheng, a communications professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Chinese state media has used coverage of police brutality in the U.S. as evidence of the latter country’s failures in human rights, without discussing its historical roots or relevance to its audience in China. “Ordinary people regard [police brutality] as a spectacle from across the Pacific,” Fang told Rest of World, “without realizing that when they are using the meme, they are no different from the racists in America.”
Fang said the online harassment of Black people also showed that despite having strict censorship on a wide range of political issues, Chinese social platforms have exercised limited control over racist hate speech.//
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