In my experience it’s hard to even discuss leftist critiques of China with a liberal. Like I can talk about how their housing market is stagnating and a liberal will hear “China’s market manipulation has failed” instead of the actual (admittedly mild) critique about enabling excessive financialization. I believe there’s even been progress on that front that I haven’t kept up on. But you get my point. If someone’s not already anticapitalist, framing it in a way that makes sense to them is hard
checks out. people really don't have an easy time accepting new ideas especially ones that go against such ingrained beliefs from propaganda etc. hits bong you just need to open your mind bro (me when a liberal propagates propaganda) (kind of unironically)
do you know what a good place is to learn abt modern china or just keep up with it newswise? i'm not like extremely confident in state media but i guess its surely better than like NYT or fuckin whatever
Something a friend insists works wonders is saying, “I know it’s a lot to ask you to realign your whole world view, but…” Specifically with longer term relationships where you see each other often
In my experience it’s hard to even discuss leftist critiques of China with a liberal. Like I can talk about how their housing market is stagnating and a liberal will hear “China’s market manipulation has failed” instead of the actual (admittedly mild) critique about enabling excessive financialization. I believe there’s even been progress on that front that I haven’t kept up on. But you get my point. If someone’s not already anticapitalist, framing it in a way that makes sense to them is hard
checks out. people really don't have an easy time accepting new ideas especially ones that go against such ingrained beliefs from propaganda etc. hits bong you just need to open your mind bro (me when a liberal propagates propaganda) (kind of unironically)
do you know what a good place is to learn abt modern china or just keep up with it newswise? i'm not like extremely confident in state media but i guess its surely better than like NYT or fuckin whatever
Something a friend insists works wonders is saying, “I know it’s a lot to ask you to realign your whole world view, but…” Specifically with longer term relationships where you see each other often