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.net
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    11 days 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

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      10 days 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