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

  • unaware [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    27·
    3 months ago

    Unironically not too different to some classes I’ve had in China (okay that is an exaggeration but profs are libs here too—I guess it being an English language curriculum doesn’t help)

    • LeninWeave [none/use name, any]@hexbear.netMEnglish
      20·
      3 months ago

      If your Chinese professors are telling you Stalin was worse than Hitler then the Chinese youth are going to have to get way less ironic about the “second cultural revolution” memes. mao-shining

      • unaware [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
        12·
        3 months ago

        Thankfully they don’t do nazi crimes denialism, they often just repeat liberal arguments about central planning being bad due to lack of incentives and whatnot and this being why the USSR collapsed and that China’s “state capitalism” is why it survived (that last part is kind of true I guess? but also so wrong at the same time!). I am learning some interesting things though, I’m still having an overall positive experience, but the liberalism does get annoying sometimes.

      • unaware [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
        12·
        3 months ago

        At least there are still some based people in the city; the other day I met an old Party member who upon learning that a PCF member (cringe I know, but there isn’t anything better) shook my hand and said that France and China should unite to take down the US empire lol

        • VILenin [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
          3·
          3 months ago

          Man that city has changed so much since the 90s and even the 00s. I can vividly recall the increase of the frequency of overheard brainworms as the decades passed by