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Are we defending the death penalty now?
It's good when China executes billionaires and sexual predators. They should keep doing it.
They're the same picture
When China does it, yes.
This isn’t some kind of bit or joke or sarcastic remark. There is no deeper meaning to be had.
Genuinely, when China, as a Communist Party, kills criminals, it is a good thing. I support it. I don’t see a problem.
No, we're pointing out yet another way the reality of China (executes child predators) conflicts with liberal fantasies about China (assumes that CSA is very common and goes unpunished even more often than in the USA)
Maybe I'm wrong here but I don't think that's usually part of the mainstream narrative about china, no?
No, but in this image you can see someone proposing that it is the case.
It's not a part of the usual narratives, no, but it is an excellent example of the way western chauvinism serves to deflect people in our society from coming to terms with it's bone-deep corruption: we learn something truly horrifying about our country/bourgeoisie, and the response that's trained into us from a lifetime of indoctrination about being the best and free-est is to go "Oh my god, if it's this bad here in the Good Guy Place then imagine what those other people must get up to in secret!"
Taking this as an example, we can look at the western accusations that do make up the mainstream narratives about China and see the same dynamic at play. As the saying goes, every accusation a confession.
I'll go against the grain and say that there's not really a good reason for China to still use the death penalty. The arguments for rehabilitation and against punitive justice hold true in China, too. But when you compare it to what you see in the majority of criminal justice systems in the Western world, which is rampant brutality and exploitation of the workers and a free-for-all for the rich, China understandably looks much more appealing. I think eventually China should reform their punitive justice in favor of rehabilitation, but it's not my place as a westerner to set the schedule for that or make demands.
You're against the death penalty because it's inhumane, has a nonzero chance of killing an innocent, and forces a worker to commit murder for the state
I'm against the death penalty because I believe billionaire pedophiles deserve much worse and a quick death is too merciful
We are not the same
We are drawing a marked comparison between the China that exists on Earth and the China that exists inside the liberal mind palace.