The genocide in Gaza has really demolished the narrative about one going on in China. Because we all know what a real genocide looks like now, if the Chinese were doing somethuing similiar they wouldn't be able to hide it.
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I wish this was the case. I just had a coworker bring up the Uyghur "genocide" as evidence about how bad China is last Friday.
I'm travelling and it constantly comes up. The fact that I've been there, spoken to Uyghurs, and they've either laughed or been straight up horrified at the western narrative is apparently not evidence enough to convince most westerners. There have been exceptions, like this sweet but naive couple from Canada who's world view my girlfriend and I were able to completely change over the course of a couple of weeks.
I think for most they've convinced themselves, with the aid of a huge amount of propaganda in the form of news and TV/movies, that the west are the good guys. The thought that anything else could be the case is simply impossible to contemplate, as it would utterly shatter their world view and morals
usians are the most propagandized people on earth
I would argue a certain segment of Europeans are even more propagandized than the average USian. At least in the US, for one reason or another (usually political tribalism), a lot of people mistrust their government, and to a lesser extent, their media. People in Europe still have way too much faith in their bourgeois institutions.
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