Enrolled in a class on Chinese politics and the first lecture was so unbelievably chock-full of lib talking points. Some that I can recall:

  • calling China a “closed autocracy” and “authoritarian”
  • mentioned that when surveyed, Chinese people rate the level of democracy in their country higher than Americans do for theirs, but with the caveat that they could be under “censorship”
  • showed the “democracy map” that’s just this international-community-1 international-community-2 and of course China is lowly rated on the democracy scale
  • showed this chart that was literally like “Stalin and Mao killed more people than Hitler!!!” lenin-dont-laugh

There was also language about how the Core Socialist Values get “hammered” into people’s heads in China, which definitely doesn’t happen in the free West sans-troll

Might be a long semester if I stay in this course cringe

Edit: class has been dropped kel-bliss

  • Damarcusart [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    1 month ago

    Kind of funny, but mostly just sad, how these sorts of “education” systems literally just give the same amount of information as your average movie or tv show or news broadcast in the west, literally no information that people wouldn’t already know growing up in the west, but they get a fancy degree at the end so while they are just as braindead as the average westerner when it comes to China, they will point to their degree in racist ignorance and declare themselves an expert.

    Political science students have always been some of the dumbest, smuggest POS I’ve ever met. Even worse than economics students a lot of the time.