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[–] [email protected] -5 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Right, that's why you need to delete my comment lmao

[–] [email protected] 14 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

You don't want to read those obviously, so I'll try to simplify it for you:

An anti-semitic german evangelical that works for the US government, who doesn’t speak a word of mandarin and has never visited china, claims that China is committing genocide on an entire region that literally anyone can travel to. His evidence is a few pictures of buildings.

Westerners feel in their gut, that every other country must be guilty of the same colonialism their countries have been carrying out for hundreds of years, and can't fathom a country not doing this. So to maintain their sense of self-worth and value, they push the same western-supremacy/chauvinism as their own country's colonial projects.

The US (as the leader and main inheritor of the colonial tradition) doesn't allow peer competitors, and as the socialist model in China is proving superior to the capitalist one, westerners must either 1) deny reality, plug their ears, isolate themselves from the successes of socialism, believe every single thing their media says about China, and turn further inwards into western/white supremacists, or 2) try to look past the lies their media tells them, and accept that maybe other countries don't need to get rich using the colonialist model.