like i dont even understand what it means. im sure the cpc is always doing that!
edit: the picture is from this (cw: hong kong newspaper) https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3168928/china-launches-campaign-stem-trafficking-women-and-children
apparently this happening caused the cpc to ramp up detections and western media are like '1 million police entering 10 thousand homes cpc evil!' even though theyre doing what the redditoids are asking. they even round up the offenders and have them be publicly shamed and shit on top of the criminal indictments, which according to the cpc's statistics is more effective than longer prison sentences
During the cold war, the anticommunist ideological framework could transform any data about existing communist societies into hostile evidence.
If the Soviets refused to negotiate a point, they were intransigent and belligerent; if they appeared willing to make concessions, this was but a skillful ploy to put us off our guard. By opposing arms limitations, they would have demonstrated their aggressive intent; but when in fact they supported most armament treaties, it was because they were mendacious and manipulative.
If the churches in the USSR were empty, this demonstrated that religion was suppressed; but if the churches were full, this meant the people were rejecting the regime’s atheistic ideology. If the workers went on strike (as happened on infrequent occasions), this was evidence of their alienation from the collectivist system; if they didn’t go on strike, this was because they were intimidated and lacked freedom.
A scarcity of consumer goods demonstrated the failure of the economic system; an improvement in consumer supplies meant only that the leaders were attempting to placate a restive population and so maintain a firmer hold over them.
If communists in the United States played an important role struggling for the rights of workers, the poor, African-Americans, women, and others, this was only their guileful way of gathering support among disfranchised groups and gaining power for themselves. How one gained power by fighting for the rights of powerless groups was never explained.
What we are dealing with is a nonfalsifiable orthodoxy, so assiduously marketed by the ruling interests that it affected people across the entire political spectrum.
saw the save trafficked women in china thing
like i dont even understand what it means. im sure the cpc is always doing that!
edit: the picture is from this (cw: hong kong newspaper) https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3168928/china-launches-campaign-stem-trafficking-women-and-children
apparently this happening caused the cpc to ramp up detections and western media are like '1 million police entering 10 thousand homes cpc evil!' even though theyre doing what the redditoids are asking. they even round up the offenders and have them be publicly shamed and shit on top of the criminal indictments, which according to the cpc's statistics is more effective than longer prison sentences
Someone get me the Parenti quote
theyre either doing too little and failing or too much and are evil authoritarians
no in between. happens on every issue. every outlet follows the same mantra.
During the cold war, the anticommunist ideological framework could transform any data about existing communist societies into hostile evidence.
If the Soviets refused to negotiate a point, they were intransigent and belligerent; if they appeared willing to make concessions, this was but a skillful ploy to put us off our guard. By opposing arms limitations, they would have demonstrated their aggressive intent; but when in fact they supported most armament treaties, it was because they were mendacious and manipulative.
If the churches in the USSR were empty, this demonstrated that religion was suppressed; but if the churches were full, this meant the people were rejecting the regime’s atheistic ideology. If the workers went on strike (as happened on infrequent occasions), this was evidence of their alienation from the collectivist system; if they didn’t go on strike, this was because they were intimidated and lacked freedom.
A scarcity of consumer goods demonstrated the failure of the economic system; an improvement in consumer supplies meant only that the leaders were attempting to placate a restive population and so maintain a firmer hold over them.
If communists in the United States played an important role struggling for the rights of workers, the poor, African-Americans, women, and others, this was only their guileful way of gathering support among disfranchised groups and gaining power for themselves. How one gained power by fighting for the rights of powerless groups was never explained.
What we are dealing with is a nonfalsifiable orthodoxy, so assiduously marketed by the ruling interests that it affected people across the entire political spectrum.
-Parenti
Here's a Sixthtone article on it
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