my co-worker, a british woman who moved here (USA) with her husband, is a perfectly nice person. i have no problems with her, but talking to her opened my eyes to how insanely ignorant and brainwashed your average person is
she’s the definition of just a normal ass regular ass type of person. progressive but not overtly political and just kinda floating through existence. which is fine.
we were talking and she was saying all of this negative stuff about china. i of course told her my point of view which is that im very very pro china and don’t think anything she was saying was actually proven. she then went on to say maybe im right and that she doesnt get why china is bad but japan is our ally “because its the same country isnt it?” so this tells me many normal people are walking around with negative opinions about china meanwhile they literally dont even know china isnt a part of japan.
she then went on to clarify, “wait maybe im thinking of korea. which is the bad one again?” IF YOU THINK SOMETHING IS SUPPOSEDLY BAD, SHOULDNT YOU KNOW WHAT THE BAD THING IS? how is that not a light that goes off for her and makes her consider “how tf do i think a place is bad when i literally don’t even know what place im talking about?”
i just said “well it depends on your perspective” and then changed the conversation to be about the tv show Tulsa King lmao
Where does this come from? Propaganda? Where you confidentiality spew uninformed opinions you couldn't even bother to verify.
I feel like an ass when I know someone doesn't know something and I have to correct them, like with social credit in China. It happens so often I just change strategy and bring it back to the US crediting/monitoring system. They tend to agree it's fucked up but I don't know if they can draw the line to what's occurring to them vs. what they're imagining is occurring to others in a country they haven't visited and know no resident's of.
yea its propaganda
the point of propaganda is to not only distill an idea, but make it seem like "common sense". the idea that china has social credit is so common place it's become common sense to know among americans, and anyone who disputes this idea is seen as an idiot. the point of stating these sort of things is more of a social ritual to inform everyone around you that you're one of the good ones who knows who the bad guys are than it is to have actual conversation
and this is why a lot of people on the autism spectrum are communists, lol