Also, the officialdom gives license to hate. It's a rubber stamp on bigotry, you can be a bigot all you like, but for Good™. Now you can dehumanise Russians, Chinese and any other targets of imperialism for free and remain a progressive liberal, shielded from any negative judgement.

And if on the rare occasion you are called out on it, you can just say that you hate the governments, not the people, ignoring all polling figures and support for these governments. After all, those support stats are fake anyway, you stupid tankie.

You ever read that red sails 'brainwashing isn't real' article? Similar premise, similar conclusion.

Basically guy was spending a lot of time debunking anti China stuff and getting frustrated. Realized really the propaganda isn't very sophisticated, wasn't hard to debunk in most cases. So saying people are fooled is kind of a cop out, underselling their intelligence maybe flattering your own. They're buying in consciously or otherwise because they see the benefit from siding with the propagandist.

Idk was an interesting read for me at least. If you can't get past the writing style these points are more or less where he ends up:

Stop accusing the masses of being “brainwashed.” Stop treating them as cattle, stop attempting to rouse them into action by scolding them with exposure to “unpleasant truths.”

Accept instead that they have been avoiding those truths for a reason. You were able to break through the propaganda barrier, and so could they if they really wanted to. Many of these people see you as the fool, and in many cases not without reason.

Understanding people as intelligent beings, craft a political strategy that convincingly makes the case for why they and their lot are very likely to benefit from joining your political project. Not in some utopian infinite timescale, but soon.

If you cannot make this case, then forget about convincing the person in question. Focus instead on finding other people to whom such a case can be made. This will lead you directly to class analysis.

There is a statue of a mighty woman located within the harbor of one of the cities of the West. At the time of its construction, it was described as “The New Colossus”, and a sonnet of the same name was inscribed at its base.

Its message was long forgotten as the ruling nobilities of the New World reforge its message to placate the populace, where indentured servitudes were substitute for liberty.

The statue is a figure of a mighty woman holding a torch, whose flame was imprisoned lightning, and her name, 'Mother of Exiles'.

From her beacon hand once glowed a worldwide welcome, whose silent lips once cried 'Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free!'

Yet, an ocean away from where the statue stood, flames of imprisoned lightning burned not in a single torch, but across an entire nation.

A nation that for decades has provided hope and solution for the poor, the tired, the huddled masses of the world, looking for a way to break from the tyranny of the New World.

To all those yearning to breathe free, the People’s Republic of China is seen as a Mother of Exiles.

The West sees something different.

They see, and fear, a New Colossus.

• Just me blatantly ripping off from one Youtube video on a certain channel.

America always needed a bogyman, the Soviet Union did a perfect job for it, military menacing, but an economy which couldn't challenge the US economical power globally, Perfect! But China? they're scared shitless. Americans are witnessing the slow collapse of their economy and are puzzled, why is manufacturing gone? why is my government incompetent? Why is corruption more accepted now than ever before? Answer: China China China... Did I mention CHINA? Not to mention Jake Sullivan's speech on how neo-liberalism has fundamentally destroyed America, no not the average American, that happened in the 1980s, but actually AMERICA. The US cannot compete with china, evidence is the shrinking manufacturing sector, the stagnation of innovative research and designs. Hell even the biggest banks aren't american anymore, the top 4 are located in china.

I would like to add another thing, the west since 1991 has been experiencing its best prosperity in ages, with people fully buying into the capitalist dream, now its completely different. Even liberals recognize that the good times are over, and people are desperate for those good times to come back. The rise of china completely shatters the average westerner delusions, a country cannot preform better than their own, Afterall haven't I been told that the west has the greatest, most wealthiest, and prosperous nations in the world? People need this lie to be sold to them, otherwise they'll have to re-wind a life-time of propaganda.

tbh rn the mainsteam coverage on China in the US is WAAAAYY less about what goes in in Mainland China, a lot more about their potential as a global threat and sabre-rattling to drum up anti-China sentiment. Think about the balloon, they didn’t give 2 shits as to whether it was actually a Chinese balloon, one of them was an Illinois Amateur Weather Balloon troupe’s device. They shot it down to drum up China hate, same with whenever they mentioned the war in Ukraine, they don’t talk about the internal debates within the CPC as to how they wanna deal with this diplomatically, they paint China as 100% pro Russia to scare Americans. They’re getting lazier and less creative. They barely even mention Xinjiang anymore because they’re quickly fucking off with the “Human Rights” narrative. Possibly because the US and allies are becoming less democratic and more brutal or possibly because human rights talk doesn’t whip up hatred like an active global threat does. Regardless of why, we can see a slight but significant change in US foreign policy (the way they sell it, the foreign policy itself isn’t changing)

It's often just white people being racist. They already had a negative opinion of them, so propaganda works well.

ignorance is a great foundation for a fictional enemy

Spot on.

100%

because racism.

As an Asian diaspora I'm pretty worried, better get out fast before the concentration camps rise up.