1. she accidentally said "32 million" instead of "320 million". "U GOT A FACT WRONG, WHOLE VIDEO IS BS!!!" cope loser.

  2. this dude at the bottom just baselessly saying it's LIKELY, as in, MORE LIKELY THAN NOT, that the chinese government paid her to say this. COPE LOSER.

and these are people who consider themselves "progressive". they're a bunch of racist dimwits swallowing the propaganda against china, and when reality proves that propaganda untrue, the free thinking liberal geniuses on reddit say "don't believe your lying eyes". seem like a well adjusted group of people. it's definitely the people newly discovering everything they thought about china was a lie who are brainwashed, and not you, who is repeating bullshit you heard on tv for 30 years.

  • Lemmygradwontallowme [he/him, comrade/them]
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    1 day ago

    A claim like “There’s cultural genocide of Uyghurs in Xinjiang” is simply unreal to most Westerners, close to pure gibberish. The words really refer to existing entities and geographies, but Westerners aren’t familiar with them. The actual content of the utterance as it spills out is no more complex or nuanced than “China Bad,” and the elementary mistakes people make when they write out statements of “solidarity” make that much clear. This is not a complaint that these people have not studied China enough — 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,

    • keepcarrot [she/her]
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      20 hours ago

      I think he's wrong here, the social purpose is to declare your allegiance to the US (or whichever local capitalist hegemon is in your area) and to "out" anyone who isn't frothing at the mouth in agreement that "China Bad"