Is it true? Is it propaganda? If it’s true then Why are they doing this?

  • fuckwit [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    3 years ago

    ….sounds like…cope? I dunno maybe I’m just a dumbass but that argument just seems to go from ‘it’s all lies’ and then triangulates back to ‘it’s pretty much what you think it is.’

    • FidelCastro [he/him]@hexbear.netM
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      3 years ago

      China has plenty of its own social issues with queer / LGBTQ+ rights (eg gay marriage still being illegal) and is not always going to line up with our own cultural indicators either.

      Understanding the context involved with a policy like this allows us to critique it more clearly than the very generalized take on it we’re seeing from most western press.

      Given our media’s vested interest in attacking China from any angle they can, I think it’s healthy to not take these stories at face value when they’re first presented to us.

      Our country is trying very hard to manufacture consent for this latest cold war and none of us are immune to propaganda.