It’s almost like they didn’t hear a word he said.
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https://www.reddit.com/r/Music/comments/wio72z/roger_waters_is_denying_chinas_genocide_on_uyghur/
It’s almost like they didn’t hear a word he said.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Music/comments/wio72z/roger_waters_is_denying_chinas_genocide_on_uyghur/
:this:
Go out into the real world and ask folks about the Uyghurs or even Ukraine, and see how much they actually know or care. Basically no one does (in the US at least). My partner for example is vaguely aware Russia and Ukraine are fighting but probably hasn't given it a second of thought in months.
(That said, propaganda has worked well enough that most Americans do hate China, but more for vague reasons they can't explain or something about "taking our jobs")
At the end of the day it's not about turning everyone at once. We can't do that. We don't have the media power.
What we do have is the truth though. They want the large crowds of screaming angry people to deter us from pushing back, they want the social anxiety of being completely clear about the matter to make us mince our words, not address things directly, or literally shut the fuck up out of fear.
If you push through that, if your attempts to get through only turn a few people at a time, that matters over thousands and thousands of leftists doing it over months and months and months. We must never stop explaining, on a long enough timeline we will always win.
I've had a lot of people bring up Uyghurs irl. I know a lot of people who pride themselves on staying "informed" which means listening to npr and reading nyt opeds