In the past week I’ve been absolutely roasted for criticising two different countries. Normally I’d be okay with that, I can handle a mild toasting and after all debate is a good thing.
On both occasions though I was flamed for mentioning human rights issues that are established facts and have been known for many, many years. I was critical of the actions/laws of their governments and not the people, their race, religion, general political ideology or nationality.
On both occasions I was bombarded by long posts that parroted propaganda, and in the case of one country I was told (on multiple occasions) that I was ignorant, racist and even fascist for mentioning the issues I did. I’m not complaining about how I was treated, but as a reminder, I was discussing internationally-recognised human rights concerns that can be verified and based in fact.
I could just be paranoid but I’m fairly convinced the responses weren’t from patriotic citizens. I think they were paid trolls or bots, and I think their purpose was to quiet negative talking points about the countries that were mentioned.
Has anyone else had a similar experience?
sorry sweaty, blowing up schoolgirls is simply a foreign policy blunder
@gork how many schools has China bombed throughout the entire history of the country?
I wonder, since the advent on bombs, have they ever? The only wars I can think off where it could have happened are the civil war and the brief conflict with Vietnam.
They were involved in Korea as well, but McArthur had pretty much flattened the entire peninsula by that point.
As far as I know there at least isn’t any “we blew up this place that was obviously civilian use” whether it’s schools or hospitals or what have you
There are very good people on both or sides of that tomahawk missile
all three of those tomahawk missiles, never let people forget the school was triple-tapped
“the US will triple-tap a girl’s primary school, but you can ineffectively stand on the sidewalk about it as long as you do not obstruct pedestrian traffic.” as if this western chauvinist knows jack shit about what you can and cannot protest in China