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

  • Red_October [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    “Yes but it is important to remember the humanitarian cost of all the progress made under Stalin and Mao. All the suffering and exploitation people endured.”

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      Humanitarian cost of “progress” made Uber capitalism? Don’t worry about it, these people should just have used their bootstraps or whatever, you can’t blame the system for them.