There are so many aspects of China that are awesome. There are also quite a few things that I don't agree with or like. How hard is it to understand you can agree AND disagree at the same time?
The anti-china propaganda and other similar bullshit doesn't help either. Hard for someone without that understanding to get over the hurdle of "bad thing" to support any good things.
I'm high AF and had a lot of trouble writing this. To summarize, if you believe China did a good then you can praise that. Even if you also believe they did a bad.
Nah, it's fine, you're making sense. The liberal worldview tries to fit everything into binary good/bad when the real world doesn't exist like that. Any nation or group of people will do good things and bad things, liberals just ignore or justify the "bad things" their team does, while ignoring or denying all the good things the enemy team does.
It's important for us to remember to actively reject this sort of mentality ourselves, it can be tempting to push back against liberal claims about China with a "China is actually perfect and an ideal place!" but that isn't any more true than whatever liberal horror story about them is being pushed in the news this week. China is a nation like any other, with great accomplishments, but also errors and failures.
Nuance is for losers.
There are so many aspects of China that are awesome. There are also quite a few things that I don't agree with or like. How hard is it to understand you can agree AND disagree at the same time?
The anti-china propaganda and other similar bullshit doesn't help either. Hard for someone without that understanding to get over the hurdle of "bad thing" to support any good things.
I'm high AF and had a lot of trouble writing this. To summarize, if you believe China did a good then you can praise that. Even if you also believe they did a bad.
Nah, it's fine, you're making sense. The liberal worldview tries to fit everything into binary good/bad when the real world doesn't exist like that. Any nation or group of people will do good things and bad things, liberals just ignore or justify the "bad things" their team does, while ignoring or denying all the good things the enemy team does.
It's important for us to remember to actively reject this sort of mentality ourselves, it can be tempting to push back against liberal claims about China with a "China is actually perfect and an ideal place!" but that isn't any more true than whatever liberal horror story about them is being pushed in the news this week. China is a nation like any other, with great accomplishments, but also errors and failures.