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

"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