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This comparison is stupid, I really really don't support US government at all, and China even worse : they have some serious problems too, let's just think about Uyghur and muslim people or what happened with Tibet just as little examples of people being killed or tortured, you can also get persecuted for practising a form qi jong (Falun Gong) seriously this needs to be posted :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_China?wprov=sfla1
I'm really hoping everything's gonna be better as soon as possible for both people of US and China
you cannot be serious mentioning falun gong lmao
china doesn't crack down hard enough on falun gong. it's a "cult" that solicits money from the us government for bullshit projects like a piece of software that supposedly enabled journalists in repressive countries to exchange information - after years of development and millions of dollars down the drain nobody actually used it. they have ties to the white house and propagandist steve bannon.
if that's not fishy idk what is.
EDIT: i forgot to mention that the propaganda newspaper Epoch Times is owned by them. Put two and two together and you realize they are US funded agitators and propagandists.
can someone think of the clergy that lost their rights! 😭
brainwashing successful. US cops can kill people and you think feel convinced that China is even worse. Just compare the response to the George Floyd Protests and the Hong Kong Riots. Which one was more violent and resulted in more deaths, yet somehow China is even worse.
compare that with what happened to the indigenous peoples of North America in a significantly shorter amount of time. China's current borders goes back centuries, and the indigenous peoples still have maintained their languages and cultures. Tibet has been part of China longer than Ohio has been part of the US.
China is in no way worse than the US.
Uyghurs
Uyghurs are not being tortured and killed.
The best and most comprehensive resource I have seen so far is Qiao Collective's Xinjiang: A Resource and Report Compilation. Qiao Collective is explicitly pro-PRC, but this is an extremely comprehensive write-up of the entire background of the events, the timeline of reports, and real and fake claims.
I also recommend reading the UN report and China's response to it. These are the most relevant accusations and responses without delving into straight up fantasy like Adrian Zenz, professional propagandist for the Victims of Communism Foundation, does.
Tourists do go to Xinjiang all the time, yes. You can watch videos like this one on YouTube, though it obviously isn't going to be a comprehensive view of a complex situation like this.
Tibet
Tibet was a feudal slave society backed by the CIA. The PLA liberated Tibet.
Two excerpts from Friendly Feudalism: The Tibet Myth:
Selection two, shorter: (CW sexual violence and mutilation)
-Dr. Michael Parenti
Falun Gong
A far-right cult? That's what you uphold? They're funded by the CIA to undermine China.
The US Empire
The US Empire far outweighs China. It's a settler-colonial empire that plunders the global south for wealth through imperialism and unequal exchange, is committing genocide in Palestine, just kidnapped a democratically elected president for daring to keep oil nationalized, and has a widespread police violence problem resulting in regular murders of innocents. China has nothing to compare to this.
It's so annoying that it's so easy to access this information, and I still see so many tibetian flags when I go to a protest, until like last week there were more tibiant flags than Venezuelan flags
Yep, people absorb positions through osmosis.
I suspect there's also an aspect of chauvinism here at play. If people already have a predisposition to see themselves as superior, then these kinds of stories feed into what they already want to believe.
Yep! The western exceptionalist mindset comes first, then they license themselves to believe that that which supports them is "good," and then absorb "other thing bad" through osmosis. They all are required, which is why breaking any of these legs tends to radicalize people.
Incidentally, I can't recommend this book enough, it lays out how this whole mindset was cultivated since the end of WW2.
Interesting, thank you! Yet another to add to the reading pile...
this one's pretty short at least :)