there’s no reason to expect them to study China, and retrospectively I think to some extent it was a mistake to personally have spent so much time trying to teach them. It’s instead an acknowledgment that they are eagerly wielding the accusation like a club, that they are in reality unconcerned with its truth-content, because it serves a social purpose.
What is this social purpose? Westerners want to believe that other places are worse off,
Christ, westerners have no brains
How many do I have to repeat this to others
Yeah I know but I want to disparge westerners for being all too happy to embrace fascism
they just like that the PLA is growing, right