So my water chemistry professor was lecturing us about climate change, and said
"By the way, China is set to reach its 2030 carbon reduction goals in around 4 years." Which is the first time I've heard a professor say anything about China that wasn't red scare paranoia.
A student said incredulously, "How?!?!"
The professor just shugged and said "I dunno, ask them."
I fought the urge to explain how.
Communist planning and a high value placed on educating people and the science sector babyyyyy.
You'd be surprised how much red scare propaganda there is in Chinese majors (or maybe not). I got incredulous reactions from my teacher when I said China was doing the right thing wrt covid regulations.
But the one time that broke was in a cinema studies class where a student was denouncing China for its genocide in Xinjiang and our professor was someone who had studied in Xinjiang, and recently as well. They basically responded to that student's rant with "be very suspicious of news coming out of Xinjiang, the US has a history of using atrocity propaganda for nefarious reasons".
based cinema studies professor
Damn, major props. They could risk losing their job over that too.