Okay, so background: I'm your average pro-gun fuck-the-police, fuck-trump zoomer honed by years of unsupervised internet access and I've just discovered this community and started lurking for a while. But I still hold extremely negative views on China, which I still think are justified.

"Which views?" I'll throw them out real quick: child labor! internet censorship! media censorship! anti-LGBTQ! uygher genocide? positive and pro war relations with russia! (because fuck putin)

So I get really confused anytime I see people expressing pro-China sentiments. Have I been spoonfed by the media or are some of these points actually justified?

  • ZoomeristLeninist [comrade/them, she/her]M
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    2 years ago

    over a billion people are no longer living in poverty bc of the PRC. the world bank even admits they have accomplished most of that in the past 40 years alone. they have done great work in essentially ending homelessness and their home ownership rate is 90% . western sources admit it bc a lot of westerners can go to China and witness the living conditions. and they account for a third of the world's manufacturing output.

    learn about the PRC, be aware of the source your information is coming from, and inspect citations when the author makes claims. it becomes much easier to see through propaganda movements western sources push like the sensationalization of anti-LGBT sentiment in China. or the published lies about the events in Xinjiang.

    • Changeling [it/its]
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      2 years ago

      My favorite trick is they’ll act like the Chinese government is censoring movies when what’s actually happened is that they’ve identified a single party member who works at a private company and that company has censored a movie, not for the sake of pleasing a bureaucratic agency, but because their niche in the market is catering to conservative moviegoers. It’s like acting like 90% of the US population watches PureFlix