• Cowbee [he/him]@lemmy.ml
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    6 months ago

    This is exactly what I see. Many people see critical support and assume it as uncritical support, then extrapolate nonsensical views from that. Like, if someone says they think it’s cool that China has high speed rail, that doesn’t mean they wish 100 Tianannmenn massacres annually and to personally fellate Xi.

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      6 months ago

      Nah dude you got it all wrong, Tianannmenn square was a western psyop. and all those “prisons” in xianjiang are just really secure hotels or something idk.

      Execution vans? never heard of them m8

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      6 months ago

      But the same people will say that Israel has to be 100% opposed, even though they are a democracy where lots of people disagree with the current actions of the government.

      So China’s problems are ignored but Israel’s are not. That’s the definition of bias.

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        6 months ago

        I don’t really think this is an equivalent statement. Israel isn’t opposed because it’s a liberal democracy, but because it is an aparthied state carrying out a genocide and propped up by the US to protect its business interests.

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          6 months ago

          The people who give China a pass are who I’m talking about. They don’t oppose the Chinese government either.

          For some people the thought process is:

          Oppose “the West” = good

          Support “the West” = bad

          The countries making up “the West” change from person to person and day to day.

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            6 months ago

            I think this is an unintentional oversimplification of their views.

            Put another way, if someone considers China a lesser evil than the US, that doesn’t mean they are giving China a “pass.” I would argue that there are no truly good states right now, so everyone is ultimately picking a lesser evil.

            If I say China having high speed rail is good, that doesn’t mean I agree with the homophobic legislature in China.