• TimothyOilpants@lemmy.ca
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    3 hours ago

    There are so many places people can turn to for journalism, opinions, and first hand accounts about day-to-day life in China. Why does everyone continue to swallow the propaganda explicitly delivered by eurocentric, western corporate media outlets?

    No nation in the entirety of human history has provided a higher standard of living to a larger population than China. Why is it so hard for people to believe that the majority of people might actually appreciate and choose the structures and systems managed by the CCP?

    Do people really believe that if any meaningful proportion of the more than 1,400,000,000 Chinese citizens (~40% of whom have received formal military training) had significant objections to their way of life that they wouldn’t be able to facilitate change or make more noise? It seems phenomenally disrespectful and beggars belief to imply that such a large number of people are either too stupid/immoral to care, or too cowardly to act. Is it not possible that they simply have a different set of values?