Originally Posted by
MechanoDruid
Thing is, media today does not do due diligence. When it comes to anything about China, it gets even worse because:
1. China doesn't allow foreign media due to their experience with propaganda campaigns, especially when it comes from US or UK, thus it is hard to do reporting.
2. No media wants to do it because every attempt at going against flow results in:
a. Removal of funding or tax breaks. It is a powerful instrument used by governments to make media comply.
b. Dealing with masses of zealots. After decades of being told that commies are bad and China is full of commies, people are not open minded. As you have probably seen in this very thread, just fact that China has 1 party system is more than enough for people to paint China as ultimate evil. It is worse than Trump cult, except that nobody wants to show different side.
So what we have a massive media circle jerk. No fact, just accusations, witnesses (totally unpaid and unbiased of course, telling the truth, not just lying to make money) and so on, but all of that is done without stepping into China. No actual reporting from China.
Then there is culture of clickbait. Plenty of "news" about China comes from tabloids that do nothing but generate clickbait news. However, no other media is willing to say that it is bullshit, clickbait bullshit is being treated as truth.
Then there are US and UK governments. They spend billions on propaganda campaigns. Where do you think those billions go to?
Oh, there is plenty of bad. However it is nowhere near as bad as media and government tell us. Did China go a bit overboard with dealing with islamic extremists? Probably. However media blows it out of proportions and lies, pretending that islamic extremists are poor people and Chinese government commits genocide against them. Numbers are being blown out of proportions, claims that there are millions of people being imprisoned accepted as truth without any checking. Are there people in prisons? Of course. Are there innocent people? Probably. Are there millions of people being detained and thrown into prisons? Of course not.
Many people believe in absolute good and absolute evil. World is not black and white. Super villains who do bad shit for sake of doing bad shit exist only in comic books.
In real world things are done for reason.
In west reasons are profit and maintaining superiority, thus attacking anyone that dares to challenge west (China is the primary target of both economic and propaganda wars).
In China reasons are security (thus dealing with islamic extremists and not giving a single fuck about opinions of anyone else), being able to stand up for themselves instead of being yet another western puppet and bringing millions out of poverty. They have managed the latter faster than any other country on Earth, got from poor nation to one of the most powerful in record times and are now dealing with islamic extremism. Unlike US and UK, they share borders with sources of that extremism, so they cannot afford being nice about it. But hey, at least they are not killing extremists, they are re-educating them to be productive members of society, unlike US that kills muslims in thousands.
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I never said anything like that. Please point me to where I said that Baltic states were living good life under communism. Please do. What I do remember posting is that baltic states were piss poor during independence between WW1 and WW2, which is true, but extrapolating from that that communists were good is big straw man.
I still wonder what that shitposter is immune to moderation. All he does is posts insults, personal attacks and lies, basically trolling the shit out of every thread.