I bet if the kind of things happening in the US happened in China, I wouldn’t be able to stop hearing about it. I mean, people are still criticizing the Tiananmen Square massacre, and hasn’t anything happened since then? It’s like still making conspiracy theories about Kennedy’s assassination or 9/11, those are old news.
Something about freedom of the press. (Or online at all)
You still can’t talk about the Tiananmen Square inside China.
In fact, this picture is banned because it was meant to get around the censors:
There’s other things, too, like Winnie the Pooh (guess why?)
Also, our protesters might get brutalized and slapped with some petty charges. Theirs disappear . After and during which they’re brutalized, too.
Also, our protesters might get brutalized and slapped with some petty charges. Theirs disappear
Ours also disappear.
Not nearly on the same level as what China does.
Or as pervasive.
It should be noted we’re actually free to talk about that in a way that you’d never be in China.
Is the US authoritarian? Absolutely. But compared to China or North Korea, it’s almost nothing.
Also, our protesters might get brutalized and slapped with some petty charges. Theirs disappear . After and during which they’re brutalized, too.
And am I supposed to take your word or the one from the BBC for it? Why not link something from a less biased source, like from a country that doesn’t host any US military.
Full tanker mode, engage!
But yeah, you won’t see any of that on legitimate Chinese press.
You know that China is currently engaging in 2 different large-scale genocides, right? Or that they crushed (very literally) an entire city-worth of protests in Hong Kong just about 5 years ago, right? People don’t talk about those because people outside of China don’t spend their days criticizing China, and people inside China don’t spend any time criticizing China.
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The Chinese internet is consored. And there is a language barrier. So you’re generally not going to read a blog post or independent article 99% of the time someone gets beaten or killed there.
Also it’s not focus or even within our perspective. And something not many people are interested in…
And thirdly, the US media and citizens perspective generally doesn’t extend beyond their borders. When have you heard of police brutality in ANY other countries than the USA? Or whats bothering people in other countries?
You’d see a lot of them when those Hong Kong protests were going on
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It’s because our media is manipulated. When Saudi Arabia commits war crimes, it’s more or less ignored. When Russia does it, it’s plastered all over the media. China suppresses protests, it’s an authoritarian hellhole. When we do it, it’s law and order. In China the great firewall is censorship, here when we ban TikTok it’s justified.
I suggest everyone read Chomsky’s manufacturing consent. It goes over many historical examples like above and the mechanisms by which it happens
