One of my friends talked to me about China recently, bringing up another friends very negative opinions of China, primarily the Uyghur situation. Its funny because they are completely non connected to the news cycle themselves and I did my best to tell them to just research zenz. I guess it relates bc I told them that the primary "researcher" behind this supposed genocide doesn't even speak Chinese and he literally just couldn't be fucked to look more into it.
The whole thing that sparked this Convo was him dating someone who lived in China previously and feeling like western media wasn't fair based on that interaction. Its hard guys. Somehow everyone knows to doubt the west in retrospect but can't take that idea and turn into scepticism about current western spread atrocities
and he literally just couldn’t be fucked to look more into it
but can’t take that idea and turn into scepticism about current western spread atrocities
It's because they don't want to confront the possibility that they are the "bad guys" exploiting the entire world for their own benefit, ESPECIALLY China since that'd mean the Chinese are the victims and still kicking their asses in everything despite that. Also
"Westerners aren’t helpless innocents whose minds are injected with atrocity propaganda, science fiction-style, they’re generally smug bourgeois proletarians who intelligently seek out as much racist propaganda as they can get their hands on because it fundamentally makes them feel better about who they are and how they live. The psychic and material costs are rationally worth the benefits" Same source as above
One of my friends talked to me about China recently, bringing up another friends very negative opinions of China, primarily the Uyghur situation. Its funny because they are completely non connected to the news cycle themselves and I did my best to tell them to just research zenz. I guess it relates bc I told them that the primary "researcher" behind this supposed genocide doesn't even speak Chinese and he literally just couldn't be fucked to look more into it.
The whole thing that sparked this Convo was him dating someone who lived in China previously and feeling like western media wasn't fair based on that interaction. Its hard guys. Somehow everyone knows to doubt the west in retrospect but can't take that idea and turn into scepticism about current western spread atrocities
It's because they don't want to confront the possibility that they are the "bad guys" exploiting the entire world for their own benefit, ESPECIALLY China since that'd mean the Chinese are the victims and still kicking their asses in everything despite that. Also
"The prevailing populist narrative grants the People (of the West) moral innocence by attributing to them utter stupidity and naivety; I invert the equation and demand a Marxist narrative instead: Westerners are willingly complicit in crimes because they instinctively and correctly understand that they benefit as a class (as a global bourgeois proletariat) from the exploitation enabled by their military and their propaganda (in Gramscian: organs of coercion and consent). [6] We’re not as stupid as we’re made out to be."
"Westerners aren’t helpless innocents whose minds are injected with atrocity propaganda, science fiction-style, they’re generally smug bourgeois proletarians who intelligently seek out as much racist propaganda as they can get their hands on because it fundamentally makes them feel better about who they are and how they live. The psychic and material costs are rationally worth the benefits" Same source as above
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More appropriate quote as a response actually. Same source
"Westerners aren’t helpless innocents whose minds are injected with atrocity propaganda, science fiction-style, they’re generally smug bourgeois proletarians who intelligently seek out as much racist propaganda as they can get their hands on because it fundamentally makes them feel better about who they are and how they live. The psychic and material costs are rationally worth the benefits"