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.
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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.
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Majority of lemmy users are US based, and the overwhelming majority are western. Similarly, the majority of lemmy users are pretty leftist compared to the average citizen.
It shouldn’t be surprising that we’re not hearing much about bad stuff happening in China. And that’s not even accounting for the difficulty in getting trustworthy information out of China.
If you want examples of semi-recent stuff from China that largely got passed over, take a look at the civil unrest regarding the apartment fires during China’s COVID lockdown, the forcible repatriation of Chinese citizens abroad, suicide rates in major manufacturing hubs, the huge economic hits in real estate and public/private transportation infrastructure, etc.
There’s a lot going on that we simply don’t hear about because people tend to share what relates to them.
This. There’s nothing in western news media about domestic issues in China. If @PumpkinDrama wants to know more they should look for books or articles about Chinese protests such as the anti PX protests and the anti nuclear plant protests.
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?
As a Canadian, I do see reports of police violence in Canada, and I imagine I’m largely seeing the same stuff you are, so you’ve also likely seen some. With that said, police violence per interaction is a pretty low % everywhere (to be clear, it should be 0), but its like 10x higher in the US than other comparable countries, and the US has a huge population. Because of a combination of those factors I wouldn’t be shocked if like 90-95% of police violence happening in English speaking countries is happening in the US.
Police violence in Canada is, like, a cop not saying please?
Canada has a dark side bro.
The Geneva conventions are just a reproduction of Canada’s WW1 to-do list…
Pushing their way to the front of the line to get the last jelly donut
Here is a noy-very recent example.
China being authoritarian is a “Dog bites man” story. It’s expected.
Same with police misconduct in the US: it’s also dog-bites-man.
Trump and his team realized that outrage fatigue is a thing: fuck up daily and with such magnitude that being a corrupt fuckup becomes a non-story and then you can get away with anything.
Steve Bannon even had a term for it: “flood the zone”.
“… with shit,” was the full title. Not joking.
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.
Lemmy skews old. For some of us, those are foundational events in our childhood.
(Kinda joking/kinda serious)
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