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
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!!!”

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 
Might be a long semester if I stay in this course 
Edit: class has been dropped 


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
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