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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

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[–] red_giant@hexbear.net 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

China is an authoritarian regime that crushes dissent, I say in china working at a university where I’m allowed to say china is an authoritarian regime that crushes dissent.

[–] godisidog@hexbear.net 14 points 1 day ago

China has soft lines on what you can get away with. Criticism in private is basically always ok, because who cares even if the state could find out. Criticism of the state to foreign kids is similar because why would China really care what they think, and who’d report it anyway?

On the other hand, Chinese people saying certain things in public to other Chinese people could get them a visit from the cops, it happens. Saying dissent is “crushed” is probably a bit dramatic outside of extreme cases, more it’s sternly discouraged but only when it’s deemed to matter.